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PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICES
These services are provided under Part III of the National
Health Service Act of 1946.
MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH
Audrey Jones, m.b.,ch.b., Senior Medical Officer
Child Health Clinics
The number of premises used for Child Health Clinics remains
at 36. The number of sessions held at these Clinics totalled 2,437,
an average of 48.5 per week.
The number of attendances by children at these Clinics totalled
81,315 thus reversing the downward trend of the last few years
by an increase of 6.3 per cent over 1969. Of this total, 63.3 per
cent were children under one year of age, 19.2 per cent children of
one to two years, and 17.5 per cent children from two to five years
of age. The average number of attendances per child remained
at 6.2 over the year.
Welfare Foods
Sales of these foods were:—
National Dried Milk 5,061
Cod Liver Oil 4,030
Vitamin A & D Tablets 5,944
Orange Juice 129,475
These figures represent a decrease of 2½ per cent on 1969. The
issue of free commodities totalled 1,701 and, together with 1,112
issues of cheap milk, represented 1.9 per cent of sales.
Care of the Unmarried Mother and her Child
The claims for capitation grants to the Canterbury and
Rochester Diocesan Council for Social Work, and the Southwark
Catholic Children's Society were in respect of approximately 109
and 6 cases respectively. These represent all types of cases involving
the unsupported mother dealt with by these organisations.
The Council assisted financially towards the cost of placing
17 unsupported mothers in Mother and Baby Homes, at a cost of
£1,439, an average of £85 a case. This number is similar to that for
1969.