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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Finsbury 1925
Annual report on the public health of Finsbury for the year 1925
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Tuesday Sale of Dried Milk, 9 a.m. to 10 a.m.
Sewing Class and Cookery Class, alternate
weeks, and Talks to Mothers, 2 p.m. to
4.30 p.m.
Wednesday Sale of Dried Milk 9 a.m. to 10 a.m.
Weighing of Children, 10 a.m. to 11 a.m.
Children's clinic and Weighing Centre,
2 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Clothing Club, 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Thursday Sale of Dried Milk 9 a.m. to 10 a.m.
Dental gas clinic, 11.30 a.m. alternate
fortnights.
Friday Sale of Dried Milk, 9 a.m. to 10 a.m.
Weighing of Children, 9 a.m. to 11 a.m.
Weighing Centre 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Clothing Club 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Saturday Sale of Dried Milk, 9 a.m. to 12 noon.
Number of individual mothers, children and infants who have attended clinics and classes—
| Mothers, nursing | 89 |
| expectant | 39 |
| of children 1—5 years | 48 |
| Children 1—5 years | 343 |
| Infants under 1 year | 408 |
| Total number | 927 |
Children's Clinic.—In 1925 the number of meetings was 102.
The patients who attended were:—Children, 1—5 years, 330;
infants under 1 year, 401; the attendances were, children 1—5
years, 2,537; infants, 2,374.
Average attendances per clinic:—Children 24, infants 23.