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DAY NURSERY.
The following figures give details of the attendances at the Day Nursery
for the year until its evacuation on September 1st, 1939.
Whole day 4,841.
Half-day(Saturdays) 382
Resident children admitted
during the year. 16
INFANT LIFE PROTECTION.
Each of the Health Visitors employed by the Council is an Officer for
Infant Life Protection, and great care is taken by them in supervising
this part of the work. A considerable amount of time and trouble is
taken in order to be satisfied in all cases.
The number of persons on the register at the end of 1939 was 37, and
the number of children 39.
STERILISED MATERNITY OUTFITS.
80 mothers applied for Sterilised Maternity Outfits during the year, and
of this number 61 came within the Committee's scale and the outfits were
granted free of charge.
BIRTH CONTROL.
There is no Birth Control Clinic in Edmonton but an arrangement has been
made to send Edmonton women to the Royal Free Hospital, at a cost of 7/6
for two consultations.
Only women coming within the meaning of the Ministry of Health's circular
1408 may be referred by the Medical Officer to the Hospital.
14 patients were referred during 1939, but the Clinic closed on the
outbreak of War, and had not re-opened by the end of the year.