Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
The annual report made to the Council of the Metropolitan Borough of Greenwich for the year 1918
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The Treatment of Advanced Cases.
The weakest point in the present scheme is still the lack of
adequate institutional accommodation for advanced and failing
cases.
E. G. Annis,
Executive Tubetrulosis Officer.
SCHOOL CLINICS, HEALTH CENTRES AND INFANT
CONSULTATIONS.
The following Institutions are still doing very good work in
the Borough:—
L.C.C. Clinics.
Health Centre, Deptford Green.
Miss McMillan's Infant Creche and Cleansing Station,
Wellington Street.
Albany Institute Infant Consultation, Creche and Babies
Home.
The Dockyard Creche, Woolwich Road, Charlton, which was
opened in the Autumn of 1917 specially for the children
of Munition Workers in the Arsenal.
Greenwich Borough Council's Creche at Conduit House, 230,
Trafalgar Road.
Greenwich Borough Council's Infant Consultation and Ante-
Natal Centres.
The total attendances of Babies at our Crèche has been 7,445,
whilst the figures for our Infant Consultation Centre are as
follows:—
New Cases 446
Attendances 3,481
Medical Consultations 1,527
The Children are weighed at every attendance.
The number of cases attending the Ante-Natal Clinic is 47
and the number of attendances 67.
In December, 1917, owing to the difficulty of obtaining milk,
the Ministry of Food purchased large stocks of Dried Milk and