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The beds are mainly for the children who attend the "Brookscroft"
Welfare Centre but are also available for those attending High Street,
at a charge of 30s. weekly, less the contributions paid by the parents.
These latter are approximately what the parents can legitimately pay.
During the year five such patients were admitted and the cost
incurred was £42 5s.
The total cases admitted to the end of the year were 24. The
average stay of those suffering from Nutritional disorders was three
months, and those with Gastric disturbance, six weeks. Of those
treated, fifteen were discharged cured, five were much improved, and
two died from congenital disease within five and two days after
admission, the others doing well.
The paid staff employed consists of a Matron, Sister, and two
Probationers; the Voluntary workers include a qualified Sister, five
V.A.D.'s, with six assistants who have been trained under the medical
director.

The Ante-Natal Clinic.—These Clinics have been held
twice weekly during the past year, at "Brookscroft'' and High Street, one
afternoon each for the first six months of the year, and for the
remaining six months both afternoons at the latter centre. This
alteration was due to the paucity in numbers of expectant mothers
attending "Brookscroft" on the days on which Infant Consultations were
held, thus securing more privacy and the greater convenience to the
doctor carrying out the work and with the hope that the mothers would
more likely attend.