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Clinic Activities.
Clinic facilities were augmented during the year by an additional
weekly ante-natal clinic and a fortnightly toddler clinic at the Rochester
Road centre. The arrangements for massage for minor orthopaedic
defects were improved by the setting up of a massage clinic at Rochester
Road which is held three times a week on Mondays, Wednesdays and
Fridays.
The big rise in the birth rate in 104(5 was reflected in the attendances
at the ante-natal clinics. More than 000 expectant mothers received
clinic supervision during the year, a figure which is approximately
50% higher than the previous highest whilst the new cases represented
60% of the notified births.
Close co-operation exists between the Council clinics and the St.
Helier Hospital Maternity Services. Most of the routine ante-natal
supervision for the high proportion of Carshalton mothers booked for
admission to the hospital is performed by the Council's ante-natal
clinics.
The same factor, viz., the increased birth rate was also responsible
for a greater degree of activity at the infant consultation clinics, the
figures relating to which also provide new high records. The number
of children under one year attending for the first time at 869, compares
with 715 in the year before. It represents 80% of the notified live
births. The number of children of all ages up to 5 in attendance during
the year was the record one of 2,477.
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