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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 1927
Annual report on the public health of Finsbury for the year 1927
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The East Finsbury Maternity and Child Welfare Centre,
162, Lever Street.—
The work and classes at the Maternity and Child Welfare
Centre, 162, Lever Street, in 1927, were as follows: —
Monday
Sale of Dried Milk 9 a.m. to 10 a.m.
Dental Clinic 2 p.m. alternate weeks.
Children's Clinic and weighing, 2 p.m.
Tuesday
Sewing Class, 2, p.m.
Wednesday
Sale of Dried Milk 9 a.m. to 10 a.m.
Children's Clinic and Weighing Centre,
2 p.m.
Clothing Club and Mothers' Holiday Fund,
3 p.m.
Thursday
Dental Gas Clinic, 11 a.m., arranged when
necessa ry.
Friday
Sale of Dried Milk, 9 a.m. to 10 a.m.
Children's Clinic and Weighing Centre,
2 p.m.
Clothing Club, 3 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 | 114 |
| „ Expectant | 28 |
| „ of children 1-5 years | 34 |
| Children,1—5 years | 275 |
| Infants under 1 year | 352 |
| Total | 803 |
Children's Clinic.—In 1927 the number of meetings was 103.
The patients who attended were :— Children 1—5 years, 275 ;
infants under 1 year— 352; the attendances were: children, 1 —5
years 2,206; infants 2,679.
Average attendances per clinic : —Children 21, infants 26.