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is as important as her physical when the progress of
the family is under consideration. For nearly thirteen
years we have had special cards for recording the
clinical histories of nursing mothers attending the
Infant Welfare Centres.
Mothers so considered during 1931 were 1,741 in
number, and they made 13,091 attendances in all.
The following table shows the attendances of
children at the ordinary Infant Clinics
Clinic.
Number
of Clinics
held
during
1931.
First
Attendances
of Babies.
Total attendances.
Age
0-1
1-2
2-5
0-1
1-2
2-5
92, Greyhound Road
175
495
42
65
5,229
1,628
1,184
170, Wandsworth Bridge
Road
173
401
31
48
4,703
1,496
1,306
Melmoth Hall, Eustace
Road
111
267
34
27
3,123
1,266
824
Totals
459
1,163
107
140
13,055
4,390
3,314
Ante-Natal Clinics.
Three Ante-Natal sessions are held weekly at the
Fulham Centres, and all expectant mothers known to
the Health Visiting or Medical staff are urged to place
themselves under medical supervision either at the
clinics or elsewhere. Any expectant mother in the
Borough is entitled to avail herself of the medical and
social services of the Ante-Natal Clinics, and it is being
recognised increasingly that the proper supervision of
an expectant mother is one of the most important
factors in the prevention of Maternal Mortality. It is
most important that the fears so often experienced by
a pregnant woman should be removed, and that her
physical condition should be closely observed in order
that any abnormality that may exist, or develop during
the pregnancy, may be suitably treated. When necessary
treatment falls outside the scope of the AnteNatal
Clinics, such cases are referred to suitable