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Period 1967/68 Health services clinic in Barley Lane - site to
to 1971/72: cont. be purchased.
Health services clinic in Cobbetts Avenue area
site to be purchased.
HEALTH SERVICES CLINIC PREMISES.
Manford Way Clinic. — The Family Planning Association continued to
use these clinic premises throughout 1962 for their sessions on every
Monday evening, a nominal charge being made to them for the facilities
provided.
At this clinic probation officers of the Essex Probation Committee,
also, have for some years been using accommodation one evening a week
for interviews and similar arrangements were made for officers of the
Division of Beacontree to use the premises for a fortnightly evening
session from July 1962. In these cases, too, a charge is made.
Kenwood Gardens Clinic. — Owing to the maintained improvement in
the recruitment of dental officers it was necessary to find other accommodation
for the chiropodist at Kenwood Gardens Clinic so that the second
dental surgery, which was used by him, could be equipped for its original
purpose. As the perambulator room was rarely used as such, mothers
attending the clinic preferring to leave their perambulators on the verandah
or pathway, it was decided to adapt this to form a chiropody suite, with two
cubicles, a waiting room, toilet and a small workroom. The work commenced
towards the end of 1962 and by the 1st April 1963 the suite was
completed, equipped and in use. Similarly, the second dental surgery was
equipped and brought into full service by early April.
An application was received from the Metropolitan Essex Marriage
Guidance Council for the use of accommodation at this clinic on Tuesday
evenings for a counselling centre. The Committee were pleased to approve
this letting, at a nominal charge, and the weekly session commenced in
September, 1962.
INFANT WELFARE CENTRES. - 91 voluntary lady helpers were
engaged in the work at the infant welfare centres at the end of December,
1962.
During the year 1962 the following attendances were recorded:-