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The number of children brought to the Centres was 2,304, of
whom 1,336 were infants under one year, and 968 children of from
one to five years.
The number of examinations of children carried out by the
Medical Officers at the centres was 3,204, and of these 1,698 were
of infants under one year, and 1,506 of children from one to five
years.
Of the 23 infant deaths which occurred during the year, in 10
cases the baby had been brought at least once to one of the centres.
Ante-Natal Clinics.
Ante-Natal Clinics were held at the White Hart Lane Centre
on Monday mornings, Tuesday and Friday afternoons and alternate
Saturday mornings and at Gordon Road Centre on Thursday afternoons
throughout the year. These Clinics are conducted by the
Medical Officers assisted by the Midwives.
For the past two years, blood examinations have been carried
out in all expectant mothers attending for the first time, for the
presence or absence of the Rhesus factor and also the Kahn Test.
A note of the blood grouping, Rhesus condition and Kahn Test is
given to each mother to be kept for future reference in case of need,
and all Rhesus negative mothers are referred by arrangement, to
the North Middlesex Hospital Maternity Department for observation
and treatment in case of need. It is hoped that this systematic
blood examination in pregnancy will be the means of preventing at
least a few neo-natal deaths.