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1. Children under 1 year 1,374
2. Children between the ages of 1—5 years 501
Number of medical consultations at General
Clinics 9,660
Number of Medical Consultations at Special
Clinics 945
Total number of visits to all Infant Welfare
Clinics 23,210
The daily average attendances at the Clinics was as
follows:—
Central Clinic, Monday afternoon 77
Manor Park, Tuesday morning 74.3
North Woolwich, Tuesday afternoon 17.3
Masterman Road, Wednesday afternoon 90
Central Clinic, Thursday morning 45.2
Plashet Grove, Thursday afternoon 82.2
Plashet Grove, Friday afternoon 70.6
Excluding North Woolwich Infant Welfare Centre, which
supplies a very small area, the average attendance of children
per Session at all Centres during the year is 73 compared with
61 in 1929.
The 1930 table referring to daily average attendances at the
clinics cannot be compared with 1929, as the transference of the
Central Infant Welfare Centre from the White House, Plashet
Grove, to the High Street School, necessitated a re-arrangement
of the clinics.
It is noted that during 1930, 3,723 children attended the
centres, this is an increase of 496 on the previous year. The
total attendances of infants from 0—5 years increased from 18,612
in 1929, to 22,265 in 1930.
Such large numbers attending the clinics must necessarily
throw a great strain on the staff of the centres. Under existing
conditions, the organisation of the clinics is becoming increasingly
difficult, and both the medical and nursing staffs frequently
find it difficult to devote sufficient time to individual cases, which
is necessary if an efficient standard at the centres is to be maintained.
In order to obviate this overcrowding at the centres, the
only remedy is to increase the number of clinics, or sessions at
each clinic.