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The Royal College of St. Katharine.
Copy of letter received from the Principal of The Royal College
of St. Katharine.
" 13th November, 1916.
Dear Dr. Alexander,
The work of the College has increased a good deal of late, and I
am writing to tell you of various changes and proposals of extension
which have been made.
At present we have three Infant Consultations weekly at 228,
Brunswick Road—on Tuesdays and Fridays at 2.30 p.m., and on
Wednesdays at 10 a.m. The Ante-Natal Clinic is on Friday at 10 a.m.,
and the Dental Clinic on Tuesdays at 4.30 p.m. Infant Consultations
are also held at Fern Street School Settlement on Tuesdays at 10 a.m.,
at Kingsley Hall (temporarily at the Chapel Hall at the corner of Bruce
Road) on Thursdays at 2.30 p.m., and at the Church Institute, Newby
Place, on Mondays at 2.30 p.m. It is proposed to open another Centre
shortly in St. Saviour's Parish, which will probably be held on Thursday
mornings.
Dr. Harold Waller now gives his whole time to the work of the
College, and Dr. Helen Stuart Robertson acts as his Clinical Assistant.
At present we have a staff of eleven Health Visitors, but we hope to
add one to this number as soon as possible.
Sewing classes and cookery demonstrations have been arranged for
the mothers at the Centre at Brunswick Road.
The Chapter have decided to open an observation ward for infants
whose progress is not satisfactory, but who are not eligible for admission
to a Children's Hospital as in-patients.
A three years' course of training has been arranged in connection
with King's College for Women, for educated women to prepare
themselves for posts as Health Visitors and Superintendents of Infant
Footnote, continued from page 11.
by Health Visitors is calculated upon births occurring in one particular year and deaths
in that and the following year. The children born in 1910 and dying during 1910-11
are shown in the rate for 1910, so that the diarrhoea months June, July, August and
September of 1911 affected not only the children born in 1911, but also those born in
1910 who had not yet reached one year of age, hence the higher rates amongst infants
visited during the two years 1910 and 1911.
1908 .. .. Mortality rates amongst infants visited .. 104.19
1909 .... „ „ „ .. 98.75
1910 .... „ „ „ .. 105.69
1911 .... „ „ „ .. 115.62
1912 .... „ „ ., .. 90.10
1913 .... „ „ „ .. 83.20
1914 .... „ „ „ .. 117.00
1915 .... „ „ .. 98.2
* Children born in 1915 were 101,649 and 11,369 died under one year of age.