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A Post-natal Clinic (voluntary) was initiated during the year, but the attendances
were not satisfactory, and for the present it has been discontinued.
Chalton Street Centre.
The additional activities of this Centre included the provision of knitting and needlework
classes at which 312 attendances were recorded.
Interviews with parents numbered 3,125: these are in addition to the work recorded in
the table on page 27.
Norih St. Pancras School for Mothers, Queen's Crescent.
During the year 23 voluntary consultations for older children were held by Dr. J.
Finch Haines.
The new cases at these consultations numbered 15 and the attendances 654.
Health Talks and Cookery Demonstrations were held, 283 attendances being recorded.
Interviews with parents by the Superintendent, other than at classes or clinics,
numbered 3,110.
23 children attending this Centre were referred for Artificial Light treatment, and
10 for Massage to the Almeric Paget Institute, a Voluntary Society whose premises are at
14, Rochford Street, which is near the Centre.
Grafton Road Centre.
12 voluntary consultations were held during the year, the Medical Officer being
Dr. Richard H. Wace.
63 dinners were supplied to nursing and expectant mothers.
17 mothers and 20 children were sent away for convalescence,
Camden Road Centre.
38 mothers and 47 children in need of a change were sent to the country or seaside for
a holiday.
The Camden Road, and Oakley Square Centres were amalgamated in 1927, and since
then the combination has been known as the Camden Town Centre.
The Oakley Square Centre was originated by the Committee of the Maternity Nursing
Association and its activities were then limited to the children of mothers who were attended
in their confinements by the staff of that Association.
Since 1918, when the Maternity and Child Welfare Act came into force, the Borough
Council has defrayed the cost of the consultation fees of the Medical Officers and the salaries
of the Health Visitors, but the staff of the Maternity Nursing Association has continued to
assist in the work. Prior to the amalgamation, in fact, the staff of the Association were
present at the Ante-natal Consultations to the exclusion of the Council's staff.
Since the amalgamation this anomaly no longer exists, neither are the Ante-natal
Consultations limited to mothers who are to be attended by the staff of the Association, but
any mother living in the area can attend, and also any child residing in the area can attend the
Infant Consultations. This Centre is in fact identical with the others, a Borough Conneil
Centre working in association with a Voluntary Committee.