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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Wood Green 1947
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wood Green]
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MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE.
The following is a list of the various clinics held throughout
the year:—
White Hart Lane Centre.
Morning.
Afternoon.
Monday Ante-natal Child Welfare
Tuesday Ante-natal
Wednesday Child Welfare
Friday Child Welfare Ante-natal
Alexandra Park Congregational Church Hall.
Thursday Morning—Child Welfare
Gordon Road Centre.
Morning.
Afternoon.
Tuesday
Thursday
Friday
Child Welfare
Ante-natal
Immunisation
(alternate weeks).
Stuart Villa.
Afternoon.
Tuesday Dental clinic for expectant
mothers and infants.
Immunisation clinic (alternate
weeks).
The number of live births registered as belonging to Wood
Green was 1,066 and the number notified under the Public Health
Act was 1,039, which is 97.4 per cent, of the registered births.
The following table shows where the great majority of these births took place:—
| Nursing Homes | 154 |
| North Middlesex Hospital | 198 |
| Royal Northern Hospital | 47 |
| University College Hospital | 18 |
| City of London Maternity Hospital | 67 |
| Mothers Hospital | 81 |