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Infant and Child Welfare Sessions.
Bexleyheath.
Total number of attendances:—
(a) By children under one year of age 6057
(b) By children between one and five years 2533
Average attendance 65
Number of children attending for the first time:
(a) Under one year of age *381
(b) Between one and five years *118
Number of children medically examined 2811
Welling.
Total number of attendances:—
(a) By children under one year of age 8721
(b) By children between one and five years 3969
Average attendance 69
Number of children attending for the first time:
(a) Under one year of age *525
(b) Between one and five *207
Number of children medically examined 4401
* These numbers do not include children who have previously
attended a Centre in another district.
Bexley.
This Centre was opened in February, 1938, and is
a new building erected at a cost of £2,100 in the middle
of a newly developed and now almost built up area in
the southern part of the Borough. The need for this
Centre has been shown by the numbers attending. Some
of the mothers attending the Bexley Clinic formerly
attended at Bexleyheath, but the distance required to
travel prevented any regularity of attendance. Some
attendances are made by residents of the County Council
Maternity and Child Welfare area, possibly balancing
the number who attend County Clinics from part of
Falconwood Ward. An arrangement is in force with
the County Council to hold no hard and fast rule with
regard to boundaries, except, of course, where assisted
milk or dental treatment, etc., is concerned.
The New Clinic is situated in Murchison Avenue
on a pleasant site and well back from the road. The
building provides a waiting room 20ft. x 21ft. with
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