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Voluntary Dispensaries.
There are three voluntary dispensaries which do extensive
work in Finsbury; these are the City of London and East London
Dispensary, 40, Wilson Street, E.C.2; the Royal General Dispensary, Bartholomew Close, E.C.I; the Finsbury Dispensary,
Friend Street, E.C.I. For the two latter institutions I am
enabled to give the following figures for 1937 by the kindness of
the Secretaries.
Finsbury Dispensary.
No. of out-patients—Finsbury residents 8,081
No. of out-patient attendances 22,907
No. of visits to patients' homes 3,004
Royal General Dispensary.
Number of new out-patients 1,288
Number of out-patients attendances 2,976
Number of visits made to patients' homes by
R.M.O. 1,192
Although the Dispensary is situated within the borders of the
City of London, practically all the out-patients are from the
Borough of Finsbury, and all the visits to patients' homes are most
certainly in the Borough of Finsbury.
Maternity and Child Welfare.
The activities of the two Maternity and Child Welfare Centres
24, Leage Street, and Pine Street may be summarised as follows :
Pine Street.
Monday, Wednesday and Friday, 10 a.m.—Engagement of
Home Helps.
Tuesday and Thursday, 10 a.m.—Artificial Sunlight Clinic.
Tuesday and Thursday, 2 p.m.—Doctor sees mothers, children
and babies; weighing of children and babies; sale of
dried milk ; massage clinic.