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visits paid to children betwen the ages of 1-5 years was 6,745.
The similar figure for 1936 was 5,700.
At the time of writing, special toddlers' clinics are held
at St. Andrew's Hall, Ealing Road, Tokyngton Church Hall,
Monks Park, Kingsbury Church Hall, Bacon Lane and at One
Tree Hill Clinic, Bridgewater Road, one session per week being
held at each clinic. As the Council's clinics are completed these
toddlers' clinics are to be increased in number.
The following figures are those concerning children between
the ages of one and five years who attended clinics during
1937. All of these, of course, did not attend a special toddlers'
clinic, but the medical supervision and advice the mothers have
had is similar to that given at the toddlers' clinics.

Ante-Natal Clinics.
The numbers attending the Ante-Natal clinics grew
appreciably throughout the year. The attendances were as
follows—at Kingsbury 747, there being 243 new patients during
the year, while at the Ealing Road Clinic 1,299 attendances were
made, there being 380 new patients. Of those attending 277
were primigravidae and 349 multigravidae. There were, in
addition, 27 attendances of Wembley patients at the Harrow
Clinic (Kenton).
The percentage of total notified births (live and still)
represented by the total numbers of women attending the clinics
was 36.3 while the corresponding figure for 1936 was 29.1 and
for 1935 it was 22.7.
An expectant mother should receive appropriate ante-natal
advice in the early stages of pregnancy while, of course, she
should be seen more often during the latter stages.
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