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visited; some are only visited three times a year, others are visited for a certain
period every week, every month or every two months.
A paid Health Visitor, attached to the Mothers' Welcome, systematically visits
all the births in Shadwell. She calls at the Public Health Office, and the list of
addresses where births have occurred, are supplied to her. Two doctors attend the
consultations at the Mothers' Welcome, Commercial Road, together with the Lady
Superintendent and nurses. The Visitor from the Mothers' Welcome visits about
350 to 400 premises where births occur in Shadwell.
A Centre has been newly opened at the Institute, Three Colt Street, which is
open one afternoon a week, when a doctor and Miss Virtue are in attendance.
No. 2 area.—St. George-in-the-East and Wapping. The eight Centres are:—
22, Raines Mansions.
St. George's Congregational Church.
Our Ladys Hall, Johnson Street.
The Institute, 136, St. George Street.
The Institute, Planet Street.
Wesleyan Chapel, Cable Street.
St. Mary's Mission Hall, Johnson Street.
Infant School Room, Scandrett Street.
The Jewish Sick Room Helps Society employ a Health Visitor to visit Jewish
babies in this area.
A doctor and nurse attend at each of these eight Centres once a fortnight, but
arrangements are made so that babies can be seen by the doctor once a week if
necessary.
Miss Lough, the Council's Health Visitor, visits all the non-Jewish cases and
systematically visits those non-Jewish babies who do not attend at the Centres,
about 600 in number. The homes of those who attend the Centres are visited by
the voluntary workers attached to them. About 1,600 births occur in this area
every year.
No. 3 area.—District West of Sidney Street and Cambridge Road. There are
two Centres for Jewish babies, one at Camperdown House and another at 53,Vallance
Road, which is connected with the Sick Room Helps Society. The Jewish babies
are visited by the Health Visitors from these two organisations.
There are two other Centres in this area which deal with non-Jewish cases.
(a) The Minories branch of Mothers' Dining Rooms, Women's League of Service,
49, Church Street, whose district extends from Back Church Lane to the Minories
and to the South of Whitechapel High Street. The homes are visited by the Secretary,
who is a paid and qualified Health Visitor.