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Hospitals—Home Helps—Specialist Medical Services, Gynaicological
and Post-Natal Clinics, Birth Control Sessions for married
women requiring birth control advice for medical reasons,
ophthalmic cases, orthopedic cases, child guidance cases, speech
difficulty eases referred to Special Clinics — Clinic for children
showing deafness or defective speech from deafness, or allergie
asthma, etc., conditions, at Metropolitan Ear, Nose and Throat
Hospital—Economic Circumstances Scale according to which Milk
and Accessory Poods, Artificial Dentures, Convalescent Treatment,
Maternity Outfits, and Home and Domestic Helps available, scale
depending on number in family and net income per head of
family—Nursery Service 368 places, on the opening of Vale Farm
Day Nursery, Nurseries open daily, Monday to Saturday, opening
and closing times as demand requires, daily charge 1/- per child,
inclusive of all food given (morning lunch, midday dinner, and
tea), Medical Officers attend the Nurseries regularly and all the
Services of the Clinics available for children.
2. The Gynæcological and Post-Natal Clinics were started in
November, 1945, and five Clinics are held each month at four
different centres in the Borough and an average of 10 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 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.
The Gynaecological cases seen have been varied and many
cases have been sent to Redhill Hospital for operation.
A considerable number of patients complaining of sterility
have been investigated and many have become pregnant.
These Clinics are performing a most useful part of the Health
Services of the Borough. In the future they may well need considerable
expansion.
3. During the year 1948, 170 new patients attended the Birth
Control Clinics, 13 sessions being held at Stag Lane and 10 at
Perrin Road. There were 590 re-attendances. 11 applicants were
refused advice as having no medical grounds for family limitation.
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