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118
Number of medical consultations at special
Clinics 1,090
Total number of visits to all Infant Welfare
Clinics 34,313
The daily average attendances at the Clinics were as
follows:—
Central Clinic, Monday afternoon 80
Plashet Grove, Tuesday morning 61
North Woolwich, Tuesday afternoon 23
Masterman Road, Wednesday afternoon 91
Central Clinics, Thursday morning 83
Manor Park, Thursday afternoon 133
Plashet Grove, Friday afternoon 142
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 98.3, compared with
102.8 in 1933.
During 1934, 3,577 children attended the centres. The total
attendance of infants from 0-5 increased from 31,483 in 1933 to
33,223, an increase of 1,740.
At the clinics special attention is paid to the education of
mothers, individual instruction is given in general hygiene of
childhood, correct methods of feeding and management of children.
Mothers are encouraged to bring their children for
periodical medical examination so that defects and incipient
diseases can be treated in the early stages.
Toddlers' Clinic.
Clinics for the examination of " Toddlers "—children between
the ages of two and five years—are held on Monday and Wednesday
mornings and on alternate Tuesday afternoons. During
1934, 1,199 examinations were made. In cases where defects
were found, the patients were transferred to the appropriate
Specialist Service.
A record of cases examined is transferred to the School
Medical Service when the children enter school.