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Public library books which have been in contact with cases
of infections disease are disinfected in the Public Health Department.
Boots, shoes, etc., taken in exchange by the Domestic Centre
are disinfected at the Public Health Department before being
re-exchanged.
Number of disinfections carried out by Wandle
Valley Isolation Hospital 152
Number of rooms disinfected by fumigator 372
Number of library books disinfected 238
REPORT ON MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE
SERVICES
Child Welfare
Child Welfare Sessions are held at five centres, thus serving
every part of the Borough. Each Clinic is held weekly.
The total number of attendances at the infant welfare centres
was 1-1.767, as compared with 11,136 in 1944. Of these 968 were
new cases. 862 being infants under one year of age, and 106
being children over one but under five years of age. The total
number of attendances of infants under one year was 11,002. and
of children between one and five years of age, 3.765.
At the end of the year there were 723 infants under one year
and 1,230 children between one and five years of age attending
the centres, making a total of 1,953.
The average attendance at each centre was: —
Park Road and Cavendish Road 58.4
St. Barnabas 80.8
Church Road 78.5
Sherwood House 71.6
Meopham Road 40.9
The percentage of infants under one year of age attending
the centres for the first time was 88.5 per cent, of the total
number of live births.