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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
Bromley 1956
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bromley]
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LABORATORY SERVICE.
Food and Drugs samples are sent to the Public Health
Laboratory at Maidstone.
Swabs and other medical specimens are sent to the laboratory
at Bromley Hospital and my thanks are due to Dr. Keall and his
staff for the very valuable assistance they have rendered.
Details of specimens, etc., sent to these laboratories are as under :—
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MORAL WELFARE.
The Church Army Home, Wells Road. Bickley.
The Sister in charge has kindly furnished the following report :
"The accommodation in this Hostel is 15 mothers and 15
babies. There were 13 mothers and 13 babies resident in the Hostel
on the 1st January. 1956. Altogether 24 mothers and babies were
in the Hostel during the year 1956. Of these, seven, when the child
reached the age of eighteen months to two years, went into satisfactory
lodgings with the child, and three returned to relatives.
Fourteen mothers and babies were in the Hostel on the 1st January.
1957. As will be seen from the above figures, the Hostel does
answer a very real need for the unmarried mother who wishes to
keep her child."