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With the transfer of the other clinic services from Valentines
Mansion to Kenwood Gardens Clinic, the Valentines Centre was moved to
the Methodist Church Hall at the junction of Eastern Avenue and The Drive
and was re-named "The Drive Infant Welfare Centre*. The Woodford
Avenue Centre which had been held at the Woodford Avenue Congregational
Church Hall was also closed, the mothers transferring either to Kenwood
Gardens Clinic or to The Drive Centre.
On the opening of the Heathcote Avenue Clinic the Barkingside
Centre held at the Parish Hall, Mossford Green, Barkingside, was closed
down, but the Fairlop Centre at that Hall is continuing in operation.
TODDLERS' CLINIC. - Dr. J.M. Pooley reports as follows:—
"This Clinic which is held at Kenwood Gardens Clinic has
been in existence since February 1960 and is held on Wednesday
mornings, once in every three weeks.
Eleven sessions were held during these ten months, during
which the attendances totalled 155, the children usually attending
as soon after the third birthday as is practicable.
One would feel that this clinic has been well attended and
thoroughly worth while. It has been of particular use in detecting:—
1. Minor eye defects;
2. Dental caries;
3. Children who require inoculations;
4. Two children with previously un-noticed inguinal herniae;
5. Several children who needed chest or metabolic check-up.
The question arises as to whether a toddler clinic four-year
old routine examination would be more useful than the five-year
old routine medical examination at school — it could then be
followed by a medical examination at 6 years of age at school,
thereby giving the head teachers 12 months in which to observe
any defects or problems which might otherwise be un-noticed so
early in the child's school career."