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(b) Midwives.
There are 6 Midwives practising locally in the District,
none of whom are subsidised. There are in addition
three Midwives employed by the Council in their
Maternity Home, but who do not do work outside the
Home.
(c) Clinics and Treatment Centres.
School Clinics.
There is a School Clinic maintained in connection
with the School Medical Service, where treatment for
minor ailments, dental and visual defects and enlarged
tonsils and adenoids is carried out. A full account of
the work done in these will be found in the Report of
the School Medical Officer at the end of this Report.
Maternity and Child Welfare Centres.
The Local Authority maintain an Ante-natal Clinic
for mothers, and two Welfare Centres for infants.
The Ante-natal Clinic is conducted on Tuesday
morning in each week by a lady doctor (Dr. J. Lorimer
Hawthorne) with considerable experience in such work.
It is held at "Hainault," the Council's Maternity Home,
and has proved very successful, and very useful to the
local mothers. During 1921, 1T8 expectant mothers
made 377 attendances, the Clinic being open on 47 occasions,
giving an average attendance of 8 per session.
The Infant Welfare Centres are also conducted by
Dr. Hawthorne, one for the Erith and Northumberland
Heath Districts on Monday afternoons at "Hainault,"
and one for Belvedere and Abbey Wood Districts on
Tuesday afternoons at the Belvedere Public Hall. Each
of these was open on 47 occasions during the year, anil
2,348 attendances were made at the Erith Centre, and
2,035 at Belvedere, giving averages of 50 and 43.3
attendances respectively.
The Health Visitors assist at each of these Clinics,
and in addition paid 5,332 visits to homes during the
year.