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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
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Each Centre, with the exception of Putney, has a separate
session for ante-natal work—at Putney it is held concurrently
with the Infant Clinic.
The accompanying- Table summarises the work done at all
Centres.
The total number on the registers at the end of 1920 was
8,492 ; there were 2,860 new cases registered during the year,
the total number of attendances was 29,450, 32 were transferred
to the other Centres, 165 removed, 261 were passed on to the
London County Council, and 73 died.
The total number of ante-natal cases on the registers at the
end of 1920 was 512, the attendances numbering 826.
The superintendents visits to infants totalled 9,486, and to
ante-natal cases 785. 159 health talks were given.
In Putney a course of needlework classes was given during
the autumn, and a special lecture to the mothers of the Putney,
Wandsworth, and Southfields Centres was given in the summer
by Miss Pearson, C.M.B.
In Tooting needlework classes are held concurrently with
the ante-natal session.
In Southfields a course of eight lectures on Hygiene was
given by the medical officer of the Centre.
In Wandsworth a course of six lectures on home nursing
was given, and 16 sewing classes were held.
A baby show and exhibition were held at the Tooting Infant
Welfare Centre in October, 1920. Only those mothers who
attended regularly were allowed to enter their infants. Preliminary
marks were given under the heading of mothercraft, thus
enabling babies who had a bad start in life, but whose mothers
by their care had lessened their handicap, to compete fairly with
strong and healthy born children ; some of these delicate children
took prizes. In Classes I. and II. (children under nine months)
all the prize-winners were entirely breast-fed. In class III.
(children up to two years) and class IV. (children between two
and five years of age) 76 and 75 per cent. respectively had been
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