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Tuberculosis. The County Sanatorium, Milford—300 beds.
The Surrey County Council is responsible for the AntiTuberculosis
Scheme in the district. The County Sanatorium
at Milford constitutes the main institutional provision, and
20 persons were admitted from Merton and Morden during
1945, whilst 77 other persons received treatment in other
institutions.
In Surrey, as in other counties, the Sanatoria accommodation
is inadequate to meet the present demands made upon
it. Every effort is being made by using other accommodation
and by selection of cases to mitigate the shortage which is
largely contributed to by shortage of nursing staff.
MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE.
Public Health Act, 1936, Section 203—Notification of Births.

The Work of the Centres.
Reference to Table VIII, page 32, show that the attendances
at the Welfare Centres were well up to the figures for
the previous years and considerably higher than for last year,
in fact, there were 3,577 infant and 3,286 child attendances
more in 1945 than in 1944. A considerable increase was to be
expected in view of the drop in 1944 owing to the flying bomb
attacks in the summer of that year. The figures, however,
compared with the immediate pre-war figures in 1938 and 1939
suggest that the peak reached in those pre-war years has been
recovered.
It is worthy of record that in 1944, 58 per cent, and in
1945 66 per cent, of the expectant mothers in the district
received ante-natal care in our clinics. When one remembers
that a proportion of our expectant mothers attend hospital
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