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STATISTICS
Provision has been made in the 1972/73 estimates for an expansion of the service, at clinics and domiciliary,
by providing 6 additional senior chiropodists together with additional supplies and equipment.
Chiropody service will also be provided in a mobile clinic for which provision has also been made in the
estimate.
Clinics
(1970 )
Sessions 4,299 (5,400)
Appointments booked 34,461 (34,123)
Attendances
Children 0-4 years 6 (4)
5-14 years 386 (149)
Adults Male 4,401 (4,414)
Female 19,655 (19,274)
Physically Handicapped 162 (103)
Total 24,610 (23,944)
Domiciliary
Treatments given 6,390 (6,812)
Homes for the Elderly
Treatments given 1,425 (1,830)
FAMILY PLANNING
Family Planning services for Islington residents are provided under the Family Planning Act, 1967, at
Council clinics, through a Council domiciliary service, and at clinics run by the Family Planning Association
and the Brook Advisory Centres.
The first Council clinics were opened in 1966, and the number of weekly sessions increased from two
per week in 1966 to thirteen per week by the end of 1971, two additional clinics having been started in 1971.
One of these is in a community centre on a housing estate and the other in hospital premises. Attendances
continued to increase and in 1971 these totalled 4,438 compared with 3,102 in 1970.
Initially, the service was restricted to those residents requiring advice and treatment on medical and
on special social grounds. From April 1970, however, the service was expanded to include all Islington
residents over the age of 16 years wishing to make use of it; advice and examination is provided without
charge but for non-medical cases there is a small charge for supplies, abated or waived altogether in necessitous
cases. Medical cases have always received supplies free of charge.
GENERAL PRACTITIONERS AND HOSPITALS
General practitioners are always consulted initially about their patients attending family planning
clinics before oral contraceptives are prescribed. In addition an Islington resident who receives family
planning advice on social grounds from her own doctor, but cannot afford to pay for the requisites, may be
supplied with these at a Council family planning clinic at normal clinic cost (or less according to assessment).
At the end of 1970 family planning sessions were initiated by the Royal Free Hospital in their obstetric
and gynaecological departments and by arrangement with the consultant obstetrician, Islington patients
were referred from these sessions to Council clinics for follow-up.
In July 1971 the Council opened a family planning clinic in the Chest Clinic premises at the
Whittington Hospital (St. Mary's Wing) by arrangement with the North London Group Hospital Management
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