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This number is not large, but it is the usual experience
that numbers at these clinics grow slowly but
surely. It takes a considerable time for the idea to take
root and spread that scientific birth control is commonly
necessary nowadays for a healthy and satisfactory
married life.
Two-thirds of all the patients had already been
practising some method of family limitation which for
one reason or another they had found to be unsatisfactory.
Seventeen of these were using a method
which is now widely condemned by psychologists as
being productive of various neurosis.
In three cases it was considered that there was no
medical reason to advise them upon contraceptive
methods.
The average age of the mothers receiving advice was
30.8 years and the average size of the family was 3.16
children, the numbers ranging from one child to eight.
Up to the present no case of failure of the method
has been reported.
April, 1937.
HOSPITALS.
There is no Municipal Hospital in the district. The
most nearly situated County Hospitals are:—
(1) Redhill County Hospital, Edgware.
(2) Central Middlesex County Hospital, Park Royal.
To the Wembley Hospital, a voluntary institution
having 63 beds, the Council again made a contribution of
250 guineas.
The great London Voluntary Hospitals also supply both
consultation and in-patient services to the inhabitants of the
district.
LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND OTHER OFFICERS'
SUPERANNUATION ACT, 1922.
During 1936, 68 examinations were made by the Medical
Officer of Health of persons about to be appointed to the
permanent staff of the Council.
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