Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Mitcham]
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Supply of Food and Medicines
Dried milk, Virol, Parish's Food, groats, Bemax, Farex, iron
pills, Lactagol, etc., were sold at the centres, and in necessitous
cases supplied free. Arrangements were such that necessitous
children needing dried food other than that supplied at the clinics
may obtain this free.
Liquid or National Dried Milk is supplied free in necessitous
cases on application to the local Food Office.
Vitamins are supplied to expectant mothers and children
under two years of age at Welfare Centres, the Food Office and
at the Public Health Department.
Arrangements are available for necessitous nursing and
expectant mothers to receive free meals.
Ante-Natal Clinics
Three ante-natal clinics are held each week at Church Road
Clinic and three clinics each week in connection with Woodlands
Maternity Home are held at the Cavendish Road Clinic.
The midwives' hold clinics for cases booked by them on each
Tuesday at Church Road Clinic and Cavendish Road Clinic, also
each Wednesday at Sherwood House.
Average Attendance at Each Centre
Number of expectant mothers | Number of attendances | Average Clinic attendance | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Woodlands (two clinics) | 162 | (350) | 1428 | (2761) | 18.8 | (18.4) |
Church Road Clinic | 824 | (501) | 1001 | (1863) | 19.2 | (17.91) |
Midwives' Clinic | 278 | (410) | 545 | (924) | 21.0 | (18.48) |
Total | 764 | (1261) | 2974 | (5548) | 19.7 | (18.26) |
One thousand two hundred and sixty-one expectant mothers
attended the ante-natal centres as against 1,215 total registered
births.
General Remarks
The clinics were reserved, as in previous years, for those cases
entering Woodlands, hospital or who were to be confined in their