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POST-NATAL CLINICS.
During the course of the year, 422 mothers attended for
examination after their confinement. This examination takes
place by appointment six weeks after the confinement, and is an
attempt to secure that complete recovery to normal health is made.
The appointments are given to every mother whose confinement
has been conducted under the responsibility of one of the
Council's Midwives, and also to every mother whose confinement
takes place in the North Middlesex County Hospital. Appointments
are not made where the confinement has been conducted
by a Private Practitioner unless specially asked for by them.
INFANT WELFARE CENTRES.
The total number of children who made their first attendance
at the Infant Welfare Clinics was 1,794.
VISITS.
The Council's Health Visitors paid 489 visits to Expectant
Mothers, 3,266 to children under one year of age, and 5,822 to
children between the ages of one and five years.
MILK AND ACCESSORY FOODS SUPPLIED.
The quantity of fresh and dried milk supplied free to necessitous
cases under the Council's Milk Supply Scheme during the
year was as follows:—
Fresh Milk Nil.
Dried Milk 1,035 lbs. cost £90 3s. Od.
In addition 266 lbs. of other food adjuncts were supplied in
cases where the products supplied by the Ministry of Food were
not satisfactory for the individual cases.
ROUTINE INSPECTION OF CHILDREN
UNDER FIVE YEARS OF AGE.
The routine Medical Inspection of children under 5 years of
age was carried out as heretofore.
The number of appointments kept during the year 1944 was
2035.
AURAL TREATMENT.
Mothers and children under 5 years of age suffering from aural
defects were referred to the School Ear, Nose and Throat Specialist.