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Hampstead 1926

Report for the year 1926 of the Medical Officer of Health

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Kilburn Clinic.
Held at 73, Dynham Road on Mondays, at 2.30 p.m., and on
Thursdays, at 10 a.m.
Mondays.
Number of occasions on which Clinic was open 48
Number of new cases seen 119
Total number of attendances during the year 471
Thursdays.
Number of occasions on which Clinic was open 52
Number of new cases seen 84
Total number of attendances during the year 411
Midwifery Service.
The Borough Council gives financial aid to the two Nursing
Associations for their provision of maternity nurses and midwives.
During the year the Nursing Associations' Maternity Nurses and
their Midwives have attended the following cases:—
Cases attended by:—
Maternity Nurses 109
Midwives 113
Methods of dealing with Unmarried Mothers and Illegitimate
Children, and with Children permanently or temporarily
deprived of a home with their own parents.
The Borough Council has made no direct arrangements for dealing
with these matters. They make a grant to the Foster Home, 99,
Haverstock Hill.
The Cross Roads Club, at 88, Alexandra Road, receives expectant
mothers prior to their admission to maternity beds, and gives them a
helping hand afterwards.
Further details with regard to these homes arc given earlier in this
Section.
Arrangements for the supply of Food and Milk.
Food is supplied to expectant and nursing mothers during the
last three months of pregnancy, and milk is supplied to them, and to
children up to three years of age.