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advice on mothercraft and post-natal matters, are the advantages
to be gained by the mothers using the centres. The
personal contact, so important a factor in local health services,
is exercised to the full in the work of the welfare centres.
Mothers using the centres may obtain certain chemical
foods, cod liver oil, orange juice, etc., at a welfare price. Medical
history cards are kept at the centres until school age; weights
are taken, test feeds taken, and records are brought weekly to
the general office for medical recording and to extract statistics
for official and graph charting purposes.

The nominal roll of 4,748 babies is a build-up of regular
and occasional attenders and contains a fair proportion of
children very near to school age. The roll undergoes annual
revision by deletion of school entrants and removals to other
districts. The figure 2,398 under (3) above is more representative
of the active roll. Average attendance of infants per year
were (a) under 1 year 15, and (b) over 1 year 5. After adjustment
of inward and outward transfers at the close of the year
there was a net figure of 1,206 births notified and against this
figure 908 babies had attended the centres for the first time
Wring the year—a percentage of 75.