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and a section on the handicapped and observation register can be found elsewhere in
this report. Medical officers and health visitors are assisted in their tasks by clinic
nurses and clinic auxiliaries.
The following table indicates the volume of worked carried out in welfare
centres during 1967:
First attendances in 1967 of children born in—
1967 4,233
1966 4,171
1965 3,695
Total attendances 73,485
Total sessions held 2,414
Ante and post-natal sessions—
First attendances 147
Total attendances 583
Total sessions held 66
Facilities provided for General Practitioner Obstetricians ante and
post-natal sessions held in Council clinics 376
Child welfare sessions held at General Practitioner's surgeries at
which Council staff were present 116
Nurseries and Child-Minders
Council Services
Under Section 22 of the National Health Service Act, 1946, the Council provides
day nursery, occasional creche and child-minder services for the day care of children
under 5 years of age.
Day Nurseries
There are six day nurseries in the Borough and demand for places is such that
a system of priorities governing admission is in operation. Priority is given to those
children whose home circumstances are detrimental to health or whose mothers
have to go out to work through economic necessity.
Charges are made according to means, but certain groups of children are
admitted free, except for a nominal charge for meals. These groups include children
with a hearing defect, speech retardation and children of deaf parents in need of a
hearing environment, who are admitted on a part-time basis up to 15 hours a week.
In addition, special units to accommodate severely sub-normal children are attached
to two day nurseries. Certain other handicapped children are also admitted free on
the recommendation of a case conference (see page 29)
Number of day nurseries at 31st December 1967 6
Number of places at 31st December 1967 325
Total attendances during 1967 71,329
Total attendances at special units during 1967 3,734
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