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Four hundred and fifty-four visits related to infants who came under further
observation in their own homes or at Infant Welfare Centres; of these, 29 removed
from the Borough before the age of one month or did not return to the Borough
after the birth of the child, and 19 were not known at the address given, leaving
406 infants as possible attendants at a Maternity and Child Welfare Centre; of
this number 242 were recorded as attending a Centre, i.e., 53 per cent.
The Centres attended were the following:—
164 attended the Council's M. & C. W. Centre at 10, John Street.
39 „ „ Short's Gardens.
4 attended the Centre at Onslow Street School, Saffron Hill.
,, ,, Charing Cross Hospital.
4 ,, ,, Myddelton Square.
7 ,, ,, Middlesex Hospital.
2 „ „ University College Hospital.
10 „ „ Royal Free Hospital.
7 „ „ Other Centres.
3 „ ,, St. Bartholomew's Hospital.
242 attended an Infant Welfare Centre.
Thus more than one-half of those visited attended an Infant Welfare Centre
and of these well over four-fifths attended the Council's Centres.
Work at Centres.
Holborn Centre, 10, John Street.