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Section G.
MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE.
The Maternity and Child Welfare work is divided between the
Borough Council and the Royal College of St. Katharine, the Borough
Council taking approximately the areas north of Bow Road and south of
East India Dock Road; the Royal College of St. Katharine being
responsible for the intermediate area, except for a small area in the
vicinity of the Maternity and Child Welfare Centre in Wellington Road.
In the table facing this page will be found a list of the Maternity and
Child Welfare Centres in the Borough, together with the days and hours
of clinics and the accommodation available at each centre.
The number of attendances at the Centres during the last 16 years
is shown below:—
Borough Council. Royal College.
1920 14,490 13,147
1921 15,710 9,856
1922 17,404 8,992
1923 24,058 11,718
1924 27,137 13,598
1925 31,540 17,809
1926 35,084 20,473
1927 36,110 23,588
1928 41,420 27,653
1929 38,504 28,250
1930 40,924 32,173
1931 42,340 34,275
1932 48,167 35,413
1933 50,599 35,713
1934 48,048 34,600
1935 45,101 33,253
Old Ford Clinic.—In June the Maternity and Child Welfare Committee
adopted the Quantity Surveyor's Estimate of £4,945 for the building
and plant; the cost of the site (including demolition) was £1,680, making