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REPORT ON MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE
SERVICES
Child Welfare
Child Welfare Sessions are held at four centres, thus serving
every part of the Borough. Four sessions are held each month
at each centre.
The total number of attendances at the infant welfare centres
was 9,555, as compared with 7,424 in 1940. Of these, 827 were
new cases, 634 being infants under one year of age, and 193
being children over one but under five years of age. The total
number of attendances of infants under one year was 6,765, and
of children between one and five years of age, 2,790.
At the end of the year there were 528 infants under one year
and 1,030 children between one and five years of age attending
the centres, making a total of 1,558.
The average attendance at each individual centre was:—
Park Road 45.4
Church Road 47.1
Sherwood Park 46.3
St. Barnabas 56.2
giving an average of 48.75.
The percentage of infants under one year of age attending
the centres was 89 per cent. of the total number of notified births.
Supply of Food and Medicines
Dried food, cod liver oil emulsion, Virol and Parrish's Food
were sold at the centres, and in necessitous cases supplied free
Arrangements were such that necessitous children needing dried
food other than that supplied at the clinics could obtain this free.
Liquid or National Dried Milk can now be supplied free in
necessitous cases on application to the local Food Office.
Arrangements for the distribution of vitamins to children
under 2 years of age were made at the Welfare Centres, the Food
Office and at British Restaurants