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accommodation for a Chiropody Clinic, for the Speech Therapy
Clinic and for other special examinations, immunisations, as
required. The Dental Surgery at Marks Road Clinic was enlarged
and re-equipped throughout during the year. Plans for the extension
of this Clinic were under consideration at the end of the year.
Arrangements were made for an Infant Welfare Session to be
held each week in the new Social Hall at Rise Park to serve the
Rise Park Estate. These sessions commenced in November, and
attendances had built up to approximately 25 per session by the
end of the year.
At Hulse Avenue Clinic, plans for extensions to provide a
new Dental Surgery, waiting room, recovery room and dark room
were nearing completion. This extension will release accommodation
at present used for dental clinic purposes for other services,
at present without adequate facilities.
Infant Welfare
Attendances at the Child Welfare Clinics are given below, with
those of 1960 for purposes of comparison:—
1961 1960
No. of children born in 1961 who attended 1,376 1,269
Totai number of children who attended 3,380 3,144
Total Attendances 23,131 21,103
The ,376 children born in 1961 who attended the Clinics
during the. year represents 74 per cent of the total number born,
after allowing for the fact that mothers of babies born in the last
two weeks of the year could scarcely have had an opportunity of
taking their babies to a clinic before the end of the year.
Voluntary Assistance at Clinics
From the very early days of Child Welfare Clinics, we have
been fortunate in having the assistance of a number of voluntary
workers a our clinic sessions. These ladies many years ago
formed a Ladies Clinic Committee, the members of which all give
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