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HOSPITALS—PUBLIC AND VOLUNTARY.
Islington Hospitals:
General:— Beds. By whom provided.
St. Mary, Islington, Hospital 834 London County Council.
Archway Hospital, Archway Road 564 Ditto.
Royal Northern Hospital 277 Royal Northern Group of Hospitals.
Mildmay Memorial Hospital 30 Voluntary Committee.
Isolation:—
London Fever Hospital 209 Voluntary Committee.
Public Assistance:
Islington Institution, 1,365 London County Council.
St. John's Road, N.19.
MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE.
Report by Assistant Medical Officer of Health
The services continue to be carried out by the Council's Health Visitors and at
the special municipal clinics, and also by the four voluntary Welfare Centres in the
borough.
As mentioned in the report for 1937, each Welfare Centre has a considerable
degree of autonomy and appoints its own Medical Officers, Health Visitors, Clerical
Staff, etc., subject to general supervision by the Medical Officer of Health.
The Borough Council is represented upon the respective Committees of the
four Welfare Centres by two members of the Maternity and Child Welfare Committee
and the Assistant Medical Officer of Health, and reciprocally the Welfare Centres are
represented on the Maternity and Child Welfare Committee by a representative from
each Centre.
Co-ordination between the Centres is effected through the Conjoint Committee
of the Islington Voluntary Welfare Centres on which the Borough Council is also
represented. Another body, the Islington Committee of Co-operation for the Welfare
of Mother and Child, consisting of representatives from the Centres, Borough Council,
General Practitioners, Midwives and Social Workers, forms a link with interested lay
bodies and persons.
Arising out of the necessity for the appointment of an Administrative Medical
Officer of the Wards of the North and West Islington Welfare Centres and also the
increased clinical work of the Municipal Sunlight Clinic and the Miriam Price Coleman
Day Nursery, Dr. K. M. Hirst, of Birmingham, was appointed as an additional
Assistant Medical Officer and commenced her duties on 1st June, 1938.
Towards the end of the year the Council decided to commence at the beginning
of 1939, for an experimental period of six months, a routine Ante-natal and Postnatal
Clinic to be held fortnightly in the evening. It is intended to meet the needs
of women who are unable to attend at a Welfare Centre or Hospital during the day,
and will be held at the Miriam Price Coleman Clinics Centre. Dr. Hirst will be the
Medical Officer in charge.
Ante-natal, Post-natal and Children's consultation clinics take place at the
Centres and Institutions and at the times indicated on page 21.