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babies under one year which figure represents 64 per cent.
of all notified births. Further to these visits each
expectant mother who attended the Ante-Natal Clinic,
received a following-up visit; there were 205 visits in all
to 162 individual mothers.
Out of the total of 9,683 visits 6,384 (66 per cent.)
were devoted to ante-natal, post-natal and welfare
generally, of the mother, or to the child under five years
of age.
It is pleasing to note that notwithstanding the many
duties to be performed by the health visitors at the school
clinics and welfare centres, there has been no lessening in
the number of visits paid. The results of home visitation
are reflected in the satisfactory statistical returns from the
welfare centres, which show increased activity from year
to year. Visitation in a good residential area where the
standards of social life and education are high, demands
from the visitors not only tact, but also the ability to
disseminate convincingly the specialised knowledge at
their command. That these qualities are not lacking in
the staff personnel is clearly indicated by the growing
popularity of the welfare service.
Welfare Centres.
The Corporation provides six welfare centres in the
Borough at which eight sessions are held weekly.
It became necessary during the year to take into
consideration certain administration changes which would
accrue when the School Clinic at Princes Plain opened in
the early months of 1936. At the time of writing these
changes have been put into effect. The venue of the
Bromley Common Centre has been changed from St.
Luke's Institute, Raglan Road, to South Clinic, Princes
Plain, and it was found expedient to change the meeting
place of the Shortlands Centre from the Congregational
Hall, Martin's Road, to St. Mark's Hall, Mason's Hill.
The removal of the Shortlands Centre has had the effect of
narrowing down the gap left by the removal of the Centre
from Raglan Road to Princes Plain, without seriously
inconveniencing the Shortlands area.