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GENERAL PROVISION OP HEALTH SERVICES FOR THE AREA
Ambulance Facilities.
During the year the Council's motor ambulance responded to 675
calls; 310 for private removals and 365 for accidents.
There is a co-ordination scheme between the ambulance services
of Penge, Beckenham and Bromley, which works satisfactorily.
Maternity and Child Welfare Centre.
The Maternity and Child Welfare Centre was held, as "before, at
the Council's School Clinic, 17, Oakfield Road, on Tuesday and
Wednesday afternoons.
In consequence of the ground floor rooms of the School Clinic
being used as a first aid post as from the beginning of the war, the
accommodation for the Maternity and Child Welfare Clinics has been
slightly restricted since that date. To avoid large gatherings of
mothers and infants, an extra eekly session for weighing babies, etc.
was commenced on the 3rd November, 1939.
Medical Officer's Consultations
Infants 1392
Nursing Mothers 561
Post-Natal 29
Ante-Natal 452 2434
Total attendance of children at the Centre 6686
Individual children who attended 718
Average weekly attendance of children 128.5
Total attendance of nursing mothers 1138
Individual nursing mothers who attended 124
Average weekly attendance of nursing mothers 21.8
Total attendance of expectant mothers 756
Individual expectant mothers who attended 190
Average weekly attendance of expectant mothers 21.6
The following amounts were expended in supplying milk gratis to
60 expectant mothers and 187 nursing mothers and infants during the
year:
Dried Milk £322.5s.11d. Fresh Milk £11.13s.0d.
HOSPITALS.
There are no changes to. report in connection with the hospital
services. Cases admitted to the County' Hospital, Farnborough, Kent,
from this district numbered 549 compared with 486 during the year 1938.
Maternity Home.
The Penge and Beckenham Joint Maternity Home, Croydon Road,
Beckenham, was closed for the reception of patients on the 5th September,
there being no provision for protecting the patients.
Penge mothers admitted to the Home up to that time totalled 48.
Work on the new Home was delayed but it was possible to open a
small part by the end of the year.
The following table gives the number of mothers admitted annually
for the last five years: