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TUBERCULOSIS DISPENSARIES.
(Provided by Surrey County Council.)
Municipal Institute, Rochester Fridays, 10 a.m.—12 noon.
Road 3rd Tuesday, 5—7 p.m.
Health Centre, Middleton Mondays, 1.30 p.m.
Road, Morden 2nd Monday, 5.30 p.m.
VENEREAL DISEASES CLINICS.
The County Council administers the Venereal Diseases Regulations
and participates in the London and Home Counties Scheme.
Under this arrangement, treatment is available at the Croydon
General Hospital and the principal London hospitals. The sessions
are numerous, and in some cases continuous, whilst many of these
institutions provide in-patient as well as out-patient treatment.
MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE.
Public Health Act, 1936—Section 203.
The number of births which were notified, as adjusted by
transferred notifications, was as follows :—
Live births 841
Still births 27
Notified by midwives 548
Notified by doctors and parents 106
Transferred notifications 214
868
868
The total is 29 more than in 1937 and represents 96 per cent, of
the number of births registered during the year.
The Work of The Centres.
The scope of the welfare centres was extended during the year
by the inauguration of special toddler clinics at the Wrythe Lane
and Stanley Road centres during March. The object of these
special clinics is to provide a complete medical overhaul of each
child in its third, fourth and fifth years. It has long been realised
that the medical supervision of infants under public welfare schemes
tends to become less adequate as the child approaches school age
unless special efforts are concentrated on the pre-school child.
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