Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Annual report on the public health of Finsbury for the year 1923
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South Clerkenwell Centre, Old Seaaiona House.
Clerkenwell Green.
The work and classes held at this Centre during 1923 were
as follows :—
Monday Post-Natal Clinic and Weighing- Centre,
2 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Dental Clinic, 2.30 p.m. to 3.30 p.m., in
alternate weeks.
Tuesday Mothers' Clinic, 10.30 a.m.
Wednesday Sewing Class, 2.30 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Thursday Post-Natal Clinic, 10 a.m. to 12.30 p.m.,
and 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Weighing Centre, 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Clothing Club, 2 p.m.
Numbers of individual mothers, children and infants who
have attended clinics and classes :—
Mothers, nursing 120
expectant 38
of children 1—6 years 10
Children 1—5 years 233
Infants 242
Total number 643
Post Natal Clinic.—In 1023 the number of meetings was 80.
The patients who attended were :—Nursing mothers 92, children
1—5 years 219, infants under 1 year 242. The attendances
were :—Nursing mothers 212, children 1 to 5 years 1,392, infants
under 1 year 2,183. Average attendances per clinic:—Nursing
mothers 2, children 7, infants 17.
Mothers' Clinic.—In 1923 the number of clinics held was 38.
The number of patients was 27 ; attendances at these clinics have
been included in those numbers mentioned in the post-natal
clinics.
Dental Clinic.—The number of clinics was 32. The patients
were :—Nursing mothers 15, expectant mothers 6, mothers of
children 1—5 years 13, children from 1 to 5 years 14. The