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In addition Infant Clinics are held once a week in hired accommodation
at:—
The German Church, 19, Montpelier Place, S.W.1; and
The London Medical Mission, Short's Gardens, Endell Street,
W.C.2.
Visits by Health Visitors during the period 1st January to 4th July,
1948, were:—
To expectant mothers 1,141 (3,438) *
To children under 1 year 2,997
To children between 1 and 5 years 3,605
Ante- and Post-Natal Clinics.
Number of clinics held weekly 7
A.N. P.N.
Number of women attending 1,056 108
Weekly clinics were also held at Westminster Hospital, Charing Cross
Hospital, St. George's Hospital and the General Lying-in-Hospital,
Lambeth, for mothers who had made arrangements for their confinements
in those hospitals.
* The figures in brackets refer to the full year 1947 in contrast to the
current numbers for half of 1948.
Infant Clinics.
Number of clinics held weekly 10
Attendances 3,623
Mothcrcraft Classes.
Number of mothercraft instruction classes held weekly 6
Attendances 1,648
Convalescent Treatment for Mothers and Children.
The City Council as a Welfare Authority was empowered to provide
convalescent treatment for expectant and nursing mothers and children
under 5 years of age. This work has for some years been undertaken by the
St. Henry Convalescent Fund. Mothers and children requiring convalescence
were recommended by the Maternity and Child Welfare
Centres to the Fund who arranged the convalescence and paid the
expenses, recovering from the family such reasonable contribution as
they could afford to pay, the City Council making a contribution towards
the balance of cost.
During the period under review some 23 cases were sent away for
convalescence in this way, the City Council contributing £62 17s. towards
the cost. It is now a statutory duty of the London County Council to
provide recuperative holidays and for the Regional Hospital Board to
provide convalescence. In neither case have they adequate facilities and
the St. Henry Fund continues to provide these services as their agents.