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(5) Exhibition of Work.
An exhibition of work done by mothers attending the Council's Maternity and
Child Welfare Centres and members of their families, including the fathers, was
held in the Court Room on Monday, October the 27th. The exhibits consisted of
needlework, knitting, baby shoe making, rug making, cookery, the hygiene of child
life as illustrated in snapshots and photographs, and ingenious domestic contrivances
made by any member of a family from which a child attended a Centre.
The Mayor (Councillor Percy Hill, J.P.) opened the exhibition and generously
provided the prizes which were distributed by the Mayoress (Mrs. Percy Hill).
The interest taken by the Mayor and Mayoress in the Exhibition and in Health
and Baby Week generally did much to enhance the success of the effort and was
greatly appreciated.
Minor Ailments.
One of the features of the year has been the continued and increased success
of the minor ailments clinic first opened in June, 1925. Here on Tuesday and
Friday afternoons certain ailments in mothers and children are dealt with which
tend to be neglected if left to home treatment and care only.
One hundred and forty patients attended the clinic in 1930, making 374
attendances. Amongst the children's ailments dealt with in the order of frequency
were:—Otorrhcea, conjunctivitis, impetigo, cuts, grazes, burns, protruding
umbilicus, sore buttocks, nasal catarrh, constipation, tonsillitis and ringworm.
Among the mothers, mastitis, varicose veins, leucorrhcea and pyorrhoea have been
the most common complaints to receive treatment.
Medical Inspection and Treatment of School Children.
The medical inspection and treatment of children attending Public Elementary
Schools in Holborn is carried out by the London County Council.
The following treatment Centres are provided under the L.C.C. Schemes:—
(1) Finsbury Centre, Spencer Street, Goswell Road.
(2) Moorfields Ophthalmic Hospital, City Road.
(3) Soho Centre, Gerrard Street.
(4) Lancing Street Centre, Lancing Street, N.W. 1.
(5) Cleansing Station (Scabies) Children's Baths, Central Street, E.C. 1.
Centres are also provided at the following Hospitals and Dispensaries:—
(1) St. Bartholomew's Hospital.
(21 Bloomsbury Dispensary.
(3) Central London Ophthalmic Hospital.
(4) Central London Throat and Ear Hospital.
(5) Dental Hospital.
(6) Homoeopathic Hospital.
(7) Hospital for Sick Children.
(8) Italian Hospital.
(9) Metropolitan Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital.
(10) Middlesex Hospital.
(11) Royal Free Hospital.
(12) Tuberculosis Dispensary, University College Hospital.
(13) University College Hospital.
We endeavoured to co-operate with the Education Authority by giving
information respecting children suffering from infectious disease and child contacts
attending public elementary schools.