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she is usually very anxious to do. If accommodation can be found, then the offer of
a place in a day nursery may provide a solution.
CHILD WELFARE
Infant Welfare Sessions. The needs of the area were met, as before, by a
total of 17 sessions per week until July, Fifteen were held at the seven Municipal
Centres and 2 at the South West Ham Child Welfare Centre at Avenons Road. When
Avenons Road was closed, an extra weekly session was held at Eldon Road. In
the Silvertown area the Child Welfare Session is combined with the ante-natal, and
in all clinics immunisation and vaccination are now carried out as part of the
regular clinic service. Eighteen children from neighbouring areas attended West Ham
clinics.
Toddlers' Clinics. In addition to the 17 sessions mentioned above, an average
of 4 special "toddlers' clinics" were held weekly. Two thousand, four hundred and
sixteen children attended for examination around the time of their second, third or
fourth birthday. Of these were 2,375 whose general condition was regarded as
satisfactory, and 41 in whom it was recorded as unsatisfactory. In the same group
of children there were 2,273 whose cleanliness of body and clothing was recorded
as good, 133 in whom it was found to be not entirely satisfactory, and 10 in whom it
was poor.
"Defects" or deviations from normality found in the same group of children
are shown below. The table includes conditions observed by the doctor or described
by the mother, and recorded at the time of the examination. The classification of
defect in these pre-school children is in line with that prescribed by the Ministry