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including one especially for mothers accommodated at St. Mary's Home, Stamford
Hill, one of the two voluntary homes for unmarried mothers in the Borough.
The number of women who attended during 1966 is shown below:-
Institutionally booked 211
Domiciliary booked 14
Total attendances 1,023
No. of sessions 188
A course of instruction in psychophysical preparation for child-birth held
in January at the John Scott Health Centre was attended by twelve midwives and
health visitors, to assist them in their ante-natal preparation classes with
expectant mothers. The course proved very useful, not only in disccusion of
methods of teaching, but also in bringing to the notice of participants visual
aids and publications which are currently in use, some of which have since been
acquired for use in the centres.
CHILD WELFARE CLINICS
The attendance of mothers with their young babies at the child welfare
clinics remains consistently high. At their first attendance, a full medical
examination is carried out on all the babies, and special attention is paid to
the record of the circumstances of the mother's pregnancy and the birth which is
received from the maternity hospital or midwife. This enables the medical
officer to select babies requiring re-examination at fairly frequent intervals,
to be placed in the observation category.

When the baby is a few months old a developmental assessment examination
is carried out on all those who attend a child welfare clinic and if the examination
is not entirely satisfactory re-examinations are undertaken.