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Ante-Natal Clinics
There were 709 attendances at the Ante-Natal Clinic, 118 Hermon
Hill, E.18.
The sessions are held weekly and all the Midwives are in attendance,
working in close co-operation with the patient's own doctor.
Relaxation Classes
Three weekly sessions are held in the Clinic at 118 Hermon Hill, the
classes being deliberately kept numerically small to enable individual
attention to be given. By this means the Health Visitor is enabled to
maintain personal contact.
These classes have continued to retain their popularity with expectant
mothers, many expressing their appreciation of the advice they have
been given and the help it has been when put into practice at the time
of their confinement.
General medical practitioners are continuing to advise their patients
to attend these classes at which the opportunity is also taken to give
short talks on preparation for the confinement and on personal hygiene
for mother and infant.
HEALTH VISITING (Section 24)
The Superintendent Health Visitor, Miss C. M. W. Court, A.R.R.C.,
S.R.N., C.M.B., H.V. Cert., reports as follows:—
An additional Health Visitor commenced duty on the 6th May, making
six Health Visitors in the Borough.
Requests from hospital to visit aged persons are numerous and the
closest co-operation is maintained with both General Practitioners and
Hospitals serving the Area. Mothercraft Classes for expectant mothers,
combined with Relaxation Classes, are carried out on three sessions per
week. The Health Visitors also lecture to various Associations when
requested.
The practice of Student Nurses from Wanstead Hospital being given
practical training in the Public Health field has continued.

In my report for 1962 I mentioned the scheme of co-operation between
one of the Health Visitors and a general practitioner partnership in the
Borough, and the attendance of this member of the staff at the doctors'
"Well-Baby" Clinic.
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