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Birth Control.
The arrangement with the North Kensington Women's Welfare Centre
by which suitable patients were sent to the centre from this district has been
discontinued.
During 1937 sessions of a new Post-Natal and a Birth Control Clinic
were commenced. These are held at the Manor House at 10 a.m. on the second
and fourth Monday in the month, and the services of Dr. Jocelyn Moore, a
specialist in this particular branch of work, have been secured.
Pamphlets are available and are distributed indicating the advantages
to be derived from an examination by a competent specialist about six weeks
after child-birth and the attendances at the clinic have been satisfactory.
Injuries not apparent to the mother may be detected and at this early stage
cure is frequently brought about rapidly and without any great inconvenience
to the patient.
The Birth Control Clinic is available to all married women in whom
pregnancy for health reasons is undesirable, and a decision as to what is
detrimental to health is left to the discretion of the Medical Officer in charge.
The desirability of adequate spacing of births is important in maintaining
physical well being and perfect health which enables a woman to enjoy her
rightful place in modern society.
Attendances at these clinics for 1938 are included in the subjoined
table.

Ante-Natal Clinics.
Sessions:—
Manor House, Tuesday 2 p.m.-4 p.m., Thursday 10 a.m.-12 noon.
Branch Centre, Tuesday 10 a.m.-12 noon.
The arrangements detailed in the report for 1934 were unaltered during
1938. The number of new patients seen at the ante-natal clinics during the
year was 531, and the total number of attendances was 2,688.
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