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Wood Green 1938
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wood Green]
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MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE.
The number of live births registered during 1938 as belonging
to Wood Green was 652 according to the information supplied
by the Registrar-General. The number of births registered in the
Borough during the year was 434 and the percentage notified
under the Public Health Act, 1936, was 98.7. The number of
stillbirths registered was 25 and the number notified 25.
Child Welfare Centres.
Maternity and Child Welfare Clinics were held at the Centre
in White Hart Lane on Monday afternoons, Wednesday mornings
and afternoons and Friday mornings, and in the Hall attached to
the Congregational Church at the junction of Alexandra Park
Road and Albert Road on Thursday mornings throughout the year.
The attendances at the Centres during the year are shown in the following table :—
| January | 1,234 |
| February | 1,223 |
| March | 1,794 |
| April | 1,229 |
| May | 1,455 |
| June | 1,383 |
| July | 1,712 |
| August | 1,514 |
| September | 1,424 |
| October | 1,315 |
| November | 1,463 |
| December | 1,450 |
| Total | 17,196 |
The attendances in 1937 were 17,383 and in 1936, 16,867.