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Saffron Hill Maternity and Child Welfare Centre.
Consultations in connection with this Voluntary Centre are held at the St.
Winifred Club, St. Peter's School, Onslow Street, Saffron Hill.
During the year ended 31st March, 1929, 292 infants and children under 5
attended the consultations, 57 of the total number coming from the Holborn
Borough
Extra food and nourishment was provided, also convalescent treatment at
country and seaside Homes; classes and lectures on health, care of the home, food,
economy and kindred subjects were held. The Chairman and Honorary Secretary
is Miss Mary Canney, 75, Lamb's Conduit Street.
Post Office Co-operation.
In July, 1928, a communication was received from the Ministry of Health
(Circular 911) intimating that the Postmaster-General had issued instructions to
postmasters of Crown Post Offices, to exhibit on their official notice boards a list
of the names and addresses of infant welfare centres and ante-natal clinics if
requested by the Maternity and Child Welfare Authority to do so, and that in the
case of offices where the postal work was performed under contract the sub-postmasters
were being requested by the Postmaster-General to co-operate. The
addresses of the two municipal centres in the Borough were printed on glazed
cards of the prescribed size, and copies were at once sent to all the post offices in
the Borough with a request for their exhibition. This valuable means of publicity
will be of much service.
Summer Outing.
The Summer Outing was held in the grounds of Oxhey Grange, Bushey, the
residence of Mr. and Mrs. Penrose, to whom we are grateful. The party consisted
of 40 mothers, most of whom carried infants in arms, and 39 other children, nearly
all of whom were below school age. The cost of the fares of some of the mothers
was defrayed in part by private subscriptions.