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Child Welfare Sessions:—The 1,941 sessions during the year were attended
by 10,601 children. The total number of attendances was 100,460. At two clinics
an extra session per week was started.
At the ages of 3 months, 7 months, 1 year, 18 months, 2, 3 and 4 years, each
child in the Borough is invited to attend a clinic for the purpose of being examined
by the doctor to see if he is keeping well and to arrange immunisation if such
arrangements are not being made through the general practitioner. In this way
it is hoped to achieve regular supervision of the health of the child as well as
routine immunisation.
Specialist Clinic Sessions:—Children suffering from defects were referred to
specialist clinics as follows:—
Ophthalmic 127 new cases
375 attendances
34 spectacles prescribed
Ear, Nose and Throat 34 new cases
84 attendances
Orthopaedic 88 new cases
212 attendances
Physiotherapy 53 new cases
66 attendances
CLINICS
Of the twenty clinics in the Borough, twelve are purpose built, five are in
adapted premises and three in rented premises. The general standard of clinic
premises is high and in fact no fewer than four were built within the past five years.
A new clinic built in the Hadley Wood area, to replace one of the rented
premises, was completed by the end of the year, ready to open early in 1966.
The replacement of two inadequate clinic premises, one adapted and the other
rented, by purpose built premises, and additions to two of the purpose built clinics
were deferred this year in accordance with Ministry of Health Circular 20/65,
"Deferment of Expenditure on Capital Projects, etc."
It is hoped that these clinics and the additions will be built during 1966.
In the Ten Year Plan it is intended to replace the last of the rented premises
and another of the adapted premises in 1970.
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