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REPORT ON MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE
CENTRES AND DENTAL CLINIC, 1933.
By Dr. F. M. Parsons, M.O. to Ante-natal and Child Welfare
Centres, Anaesthetist to Dental Clinic.
Child Welfake.
Child Welfare Sessions are held at six centres, of which one,
Sherwood Park, was opened this year. At the Western Road,
Parish Room and Sherwood Park Centres, two sessions are held
each month, and the doctor attends each one. At the Meopham
Road, Cavendish Road and St. Barnabas Centres, four sessions are
held each month, and the doctor attends each centre on two
occasions.
The new centre, Sherwood Park, was opened on April 6 with
an attendance of 24. The Centre serves a large and rapidly growing
new district. Daring the nine months in which it has been in
existence 102 cases have been registered. Of these 54 were babies
under one year of age, and 48 were children over one year and under
five years of age when they attended the Centre for the first time.
The total attendance at this Centre was 454, the average being 28.3.
The total attendance of infants under one year was 230, and of
children between one and five years 224. The clinic is held in a
playing field pavilion, but as the numbers grow, more accommodation
will be needed.
The total number of attendances of the six Child Welfare
Centres during 1933 was 8,553. Of these 880 were new cases, 572
being infants under one year of age, and 308 being children over one
and under five years of age. The total number of attendances of
children under one year of age was 5,668, and of children between
one and five years of age 2,885. At the end of the year there were
428 children under one year and 940 children under five years of
age attending the Centres.
The average attendance at each Centre was 46. The percentage
of infants under one year of age attending the Centres was 64.1 per
cent. of the total number of notified births.