Annual Report of the Scarborough Family Planning Clinic

The 1972 Annual Report of the Scarborough Family Planning Clinic notes that the majority of its patients are young single girls. It is interesting to note that the Clinic’s hours would be appealing to this demographic who either go to school or go to work during the day.

The report reads: “Family Planning Clinics have continued through the year on Monday afternoon and Thursday, 3:00 to 9:00 p.m. The appointment system has reduced the long waits that characterized the Clinic in past years. We serve, in large measure, those who avoid consulting a family doctor – i.e. the young, single girls. Perhaps a measure of the Clinic’s success is the reduction in children for adoption and dropouts from school for reasons of pregnancy. The attendance for the year has been 2,023, of whom 750 were new clients.”