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REPORT ON MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE
CENTRES AND DENTAL CLINIC, 1934.
By F. M. Parsons, Medical Officer to the Ante-Natal and
Child Welfare Centres, Anaesthetist to Dental Clinic.
Child Welfare.
Child Welfare sessions continue to be held at six centres. At
the Parish Room, Sherwood Park and Western Road Centres two
sessions are held each month and the doctor attends each one. At
the Cavendish Road, Meopham Road and St. Barnabas Centres, four
sessions are held each month, and the doctor attends each centre
twice during each month.
On December 6 the Sherwood Park Clinic moved from the
small cricket pavilion, in which it had its birth, to more commodious
premises at Sherwood House, which has been reconditioned by the
installation of electric fires, radiators and constant hot water to
make it a suitable place in which to hold this clinic, which serves a
very rapidly growing area.
The total number of attendances at the six Child Welfare
Centres during 1934 was 9,058. Of these 800 were new cases, 571
being infants under one year of age, and 229 being children over one
but under five years of age. The total number of attendances of
children under one year of age was 5,858, and of children between
one and five years of age 3,200.
At the end of the year there were 448 infants under one year
and 860 children between one and five years attending the centres.
The average attendance at each individual centre was:-
Cavendish Road 46
Meopham Road 51
Parish Room 45
Sherwood Park 36
St. Barnabas 56
Western Road 42
giving an average attendance for all centres of 46.
The percentage of infants under one year of age attending the
centres was 61.3 per cent. of the total number of notified births.