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and. health visitors in their consultation clinics, work demanding very different
skills to those formerly necessary. The demand for this service and the
esteem in which it is held by mothers is illustrated by the continuing high
attendance figures.
During the year special Toddlers Clinics have been set up in all the
main clinics where children are seen by appointment annually for assessment
of their physical and mental development and where more time can be devoted
to mothers who have problems than is possible at the general clinic sessions.
Special sessions have also been arranged for immunisation and vaccination of
children where the numbers attending have justified separation from general
infant welfare sessions thus avoiding the long waiting previously experienced
and allowing more time for consultations.
The changes in administrative areas allowed the closure of two small
clinics in rented premises to be projected and a new clinic building, planned,
and built by Surrey County Council in the Clock House Estate area of Carshalton,
was nearing completion at the end of the year. The change in the boundary
whereby Purley became a part of the London Borough of Croydon area has made
this clinic area somewhat isolated but it is hoped to provide a useful service
for those residents in the immediate neighbourhood.
At 31st December, 1965 5 purpose-built clinics and 3 adapted buildings
were in use for ante-natal and post-natal clinics, mothercraft and relaxation
classes and child welfare centres including toddlers® clinics and immunisation.
In addition, 5 church and other types of hall were occupied on a
sessional basis for child welfare clinics and immunisation.
The sessional use of 2 church halls was discontinued during the year
1965:-
(a) Elm Grove Church Hall, Butter Hill, Wallington
(b) Methodist Church Hall, Sandy Lane North, Wallington