London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

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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

Greenwich 1925

The annual report made to the Council of the Metropolitan Borough of Greenwich for the year 1925

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Table: Clinics and Treatment Centres—Continued.

Clinics and Treatment Centres—Continued.

Name.SituationNature of Accommodation.By whom provided.Period when held.
School Clinics.Parle Row, Greenwich.Whole House.Local Medical Practitioners.Daily.
Ditto.Health Clinic, Deptford Green, S.E.Several rooms.Miss Margaret McMillan.Daily.
Tuberculosis.Dispensary, 7a, Maze Hill, Greenwich.Consulting Room and Dentist's Surgery. Separate Waiting and Cloak Rooms for Men and Women Patients, Nurses' Room and Dispenser's Room.Local Authority.Daily
Venereal Diseases.Miller General Hospital, Greenwich Rd.--Daily.
Seamen's Hospital, Greenwich.--Thrice weekly.
St. John's Hospital, Morden Hill, Lewisham--Twice weekly.

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PUBLIC HEALTH STAFF.
Miss A. Jenkins was appointed as Health Visitor in February
and Miss L. D'Oyly Watkins commenced duties as Nurse in Charge
of the new Artificial Sunlight Treatment Centre in July.
Dr. A. F. Kellett, B.A., M.B., Ch.B., who had acted as part
time Medical Officer in connection with this Council's Maternity
and Child Welfare Scheme since its inception, and had also acted as
Honorary Medical Officer for the Albury Street Babies Home connected
with the Deptford Fund, had to enter Guys Hospital for an
operation when the illness he was suffering from was found to be of a
cancerous nature and proved fatal after a very short period. His
services are very much missed by the Department because his
sympathetic nature had endeared him not only to the members of
the Staff but also to the Mothers who came under his care and
attention from time to time. The Committee of the Babies Home