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INFANT WELFARE CENTRES.
The extensions of this service during the last five years are
as follow:—
The opening of a weekly weighing session at St. Michael's
Hall, Northwold Road, an additional weekly infant welfare session
at the Mayfield Road Centre, and an additional weekly dental
session at the Lower Clapton Centre. The sessions held previously
at All Souls' Church rooms are now held at more suitable premises
at the Pedro Street Settlement.
The Voluntary Centres which are subsidised by the Borough
Council and carry out their work in co-ordination with the work
of the Maternity and Child Welfare Committee in accordance with
Circular M.C.W./38 of the Ministry of Health have also extended
their activities by the opening of an Infant Welfare Clinic at the
Rectory Road Schoolrooms.
The Salvation Army at their Mothers' Hospital in Lower
Clapton Road now hold a Child Welfare Clinic weekly.
A list of the infant welfare centres in the Borough, which
are nine in number, appears on page 64 of this report. Five of
these centres are provided and maintained by the Borough Council,
whilst the remaining four, whose work is co-ordinated with that
of the Borough Council, are voluntary institutions, supported
mainly by voluntary contributions and grants from the Borough
Council.
Each of the nine infant welfare centres has been allotted a
district and mothers are encouraged to attend the centre serving
the area in which they live.
Part-time (temporary, i.e., not on the permanent staff) Medical
Officers have been appointed to conduct the work of the consultation
centres, the duties of medical officers having been arranged as
follow:—
1. To attend the centre on each session.
2. To examine all infants brought to the centre of parents living in the
Borough.
3. To advise the parents as to the feeding and care of their infants.
4. Treat minor ailments in the infant when circumstances indicate the
need for this.