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Number of visits of Health Visitors:—
1937. 1947.
To Expectant Mothers 1,861 3,093
To children under 1 year 6,034 8,958
To children 1—5 years 6,745 9,133
3. In their consideration of the programme of capital expenditure
the Council submitted to the Ministry of Health the
following propositions:—
£
(a) 1947/48—5 day Nurseries, estimated cost
£5,000 each, total 25,000
(b) 1948/49—1 Day Nursery 5,000
Health Centres:—
(i) The Avenue, to serve Barn
Hill and Chalkhill districts 7,000
(ii) Regal Way to serve Kenton
district 7,000
Total £44,000
4. The statistics continue to show the high acceptance by
the public of the various services, their development being
demonstrated in Paragraph 2.
5. Mr. J. D. Flew has contributed the following paragraphs
on the Gynaecology and Post-Natal Clinics:—
The Gynaecological and Post-Natal Clinics were started in
November, 1945, and I have had the pleasure of being in charge
of them.
Five Clinics are held each month at four different centres
in the Borough and an average of 15 patients is seen at each
session. Each patient comes by appointment and the number of
defaulters has been very small.
About 70% are Post-Natal cases and I find that much can
be done to relieve them of the minor discomforts, such as backache
and vaginal discharge, which so frequently follow childbirth.
These symptoms are due to a variety of causes, the commonest
of which is infection of the torn cervix, cured by electrical
cauterisation.
After improvement of these symptoms the patient's general
health often improves and all patients seem to be very grateful
for the attention given to these matters.
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