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When necessary, provision is made for the admission of mother and
infant to various hospitals, including St. Margaret's Hospital, Kentish
Town. Arrangements with the District Nursing Association has been
made for the home nursing of Ophthalmia Neonatorum:
Exhibits connected with mothercraft are arranged at the Town
Hall and the Centres. They included ideal clothing and food for
expectant and nursing mothers, babies, toddlers and school children;
dental and personal hygiene, model family diets.
A health visitor is always in attendance to give helpful advice and
listen with sympathy to a worried or anxious parent.
SEWING CLASSES AND CLUBS.
These are held at The Chestnuts and Lordship Lane Centres every
week during the winter months. One session every month is of a purely
social character. All sessions have been well attended during 1937.
The members pride themselves on the general excellence of their work
and take great delight in creating " something new from something
old." The health visitor in charge usually gives a collective talk and
demonstration followed by what is often a keen discussion.
During these meetings the children are in another room, where
they are minded by a paid helper. This arrangement is much appreciated
as it gives the mothers a rest from the children and an opportunity
for a chat and a cup of tea in comfort.
A Health Exhibition was held in the Town Hall from November 29th
to December 3rd, 1937, details of which appear in another section of
the Report.
"KEEP FIT'' CLASS FOR MOTHERS.
The leader of the class is a trained certificated teacher, and holds
the Physical Training Certificate (Reading University, 1921).
The system of exercises follows the modern interpretation of the
Swedish system and is used as a basis for recreative physical training.
The work is recreative in character with a bias towards postural
training.