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Maternity and Child Welfare.
In July, Busch House was opened as a temporary clinic until such time as a new up-to-date
one is built. This gives us a large waiting room for the Maternity and Child Welfare Clinic,
and a Consulting Room for the School Qinic and Ante-Natal Clinic, together with cubicles for
the ante-natal mothers, and accommodation for minor ailment dressings and a dark room for the
Eye Clinic, on the ground floor. On the first floor there is a fully equipped Dental Operating
Room with a Gas Recovery Room adjoining, a Dental Waiting Room, and Offices for the dental
clerks.
On the top floor there is a rest room for the female staff, and also a room for the Medical
Officer and Dental Surgeon. In addition there is a kitchen used partly for demonstration purposes
and partly for a means for any of the staff providing themselves with a mid-day meal.
The formal opening took place on 27th June, 1934.
It is hoped that the advent of the clinic into the Brentford End area will result in overcoming
the apathy which existed among sections of the population which have come into the area
from Brentford and Chiswick.
Efforts have been made to obtain some sort of accommodation for the Cranford end of the
area, which is now growing very rapidly, but so far without success. The Village Hall which at
one time we hoped might be utilised has been seized by the Education Authorities to provide
school accommodation owing to the rapid growth at that end of the district.

The average attendances per session during the year 1934 were as follows:—
At Douglas Road Centre 78.8
At Clipstone House, Bath Road, Centre 68.0
At Isleworth Centre 54.9
At Heston Centre 58.9
Approximately 64.4 per cent. of the notified live births attended at one of the Infant
Welfare Centres before they were a year old.