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4 Dutch journalists.
11 nurses from Staff College for Ward Sisters.
6 employees of the Emergency Bed Service.
5 The Minister of Health and party.
11 students of Institute of Hospital Administrators.
112 medical officers attending the National Association for Mental Health
Conference.

ø Excluding visitors to Woodberry Down Health Centre
Endeavours are made to meet all reasonable requests for visits as the exchange of
views and information is of mutual benefit.
Woodberry
Down Health
Centre
From its opening in October, to the end of the year, there were 641 visitors to thi
health centre, very few of whom are included above.
REPORTS BY THE DIVISIONAL MEDICAL OFFICERS
Division 1, comprising the boroughs of Chelsea, Fulham, Hammersmith and Kensington.
Dr. Violet Russell reports:
Expansion of
services
There has been a considerable expansion of the work during the year, most notably
in the home nursing and home help services. The smaller waiting lists at day nurseries
were offset by a large increase in the number of child-minders registered under the
Council's scheme.
The popular chiropody sessions have been increased, the new sessions being devoted
to the treatment of old people and expectant and nursing mothers.
To meet an increased demand, more audiology sessions have been instituted for
school children. A speech-therapy class has been moved to improved accommodation in
Fulham, and further sessions began in Kensington and Hammersmith. An additional
session for orthoptic treatment is being held at Fulham school treatment centre.
In the tuberculosis service the number of patients receiving extra nourishment free
or at reduced cost increased substantially and now amounts to about 10 per cent. of
those on the register.
Ante-natal
sessions
The maternity and child welfare service has carried on its excellent educational
work but there has been a decline in the number of women attending ante-natal sessions.
As a result two weekly ante-natal sessions in Fulham and one in Hammersmith have been
discontinued. This decline is associated with the increasing proportion of mothers who
have their confinements and ante-natal care at hospitals; the percentage of home
confinements in the division is the lowest in London.
Marriage
guidance
I am glad to report the institution or a weekly advisory clinic conducted by the
London Marriage Guidance Council in the division.
Homeless
families
Early in 1952 a weekly infant welfare session was started at the Homeless Families
Unit in Fulham Road, Chelsea, as there had been difficulty in persuading the mothers
resident there to attend the local welfare centres. The new session is appreciated by the
mothers and is doing good educational work. A mothercraft session has been organised
bv the health visitors, who give lectures on mothercraft and hygiene.
Ill-treatment
and neglect of
children and
juvenile
delinquency
Two conferences were held in the division with a view to co-ordinating measures
for the prevention of ill-treatment and neglect of children and juvenile delinquency:
the conferences were attended by representatives of the public health, education,
and housing departments, a borough council housing department, the police, the