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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.1; the Finsbury Dispensary,
Friend Street, E.C.1. For the latter institutions, I am enabled to
give the following figures for 1938 by the kindness of the Secretaries.
Finsbury Dispensary.
No. of out-patients—Finsbury residents 7,994
No. of out-patient attendances 21,945
No. of visits to patients'homes 2,142
Royal General Dispensary.
Number of new out-patients 1,351
Number of out-patients attendances 2,957
Number of visits made to patients' homes by R.M.O. 1,035
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.
Tuesday and Thursday, 2 p.m.—Doctor sees mothers, babies
and toddlers, weighing of babies and toddlers, sale of dried
milk.
Wednesday, 2 p.m.—Italian Clinic attended by Doctor speaking
Italian, weighing of babies and toddlers, sale of dried milk.
Monday, Wednesday and Friday, 9 a.m. to 9.45
tions taken for milk and dinner grants. 10 a.m. applications
taken for Home Helps.
Tuesday, 3 p.m. to 4 p.m.—Women's Holiday Fund.
Saturday, 10.30 a.m.—Diphtheria Immunisation by appointment.
(Immunisation also conducted by Doctor at Clinics.)
Daily 9.30 a.m. to 10. a.m.—Dried milk to mothers receiving
grants and from 12 noon to 1 p.m. dinners served to mothers
and toddlers.