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and are able to be full-time mothers and housewives. It is not
uncommon for Cypriot wives to be unable to speak English even after
many years in this country. Such families form their own little
communities and when the young children reach school age they become
an education problem.

Toddlers Clinics
A much smaller proportion of mothers take their children to
toddler clinics than to infant welfare clinics. If a special effort was
not made to remind them and to specially appoint them the numbers
would be even less and yet experience has shown how extremely
important this age is in the physical, emotional and social development
of the child. The staff at these sessions are convinced of the value
of routine inspection at this age and find it clinically rewarding. So
many abnormalities, such as speech defects, visual defects, behaviour
disorders, mild spasticity, can be detected and improved before undesirable
habits become established. Parents of these children fully
appreciate the work that staff and voluntary workers put in at the
clinics to make the room attractive with toys and posters particularly
at Christmas time.
The following table, gives details of attendances at the individual
clinics:-
54