Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Stoke Newington, The Metropolitan Borough]
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(b) 44, Milton Road.—One room, warmed by guarded coal
fire and hot-water radiator.
One room warmed by coal fire (doctor's room).
Two sessions for weighings and nurses' advice weekly:
Mondays and Fridays, at 2.
One session for doctor's consultations, conducted by
the Medical Officer of Health: Thursdays, at 2.
Instruction Class for Mothers: Tuesdays, at 3.
2. Day Nurseries.—Nil.
3. School Clinics.—The scholars from Stoke Newington
elementary schools attend the treatment centres connected with
the L.C.C. scheme at
Popham Street, Islington Millfields, Hackney Neither of these lie within the Borough
4. Tuberculosis Dispensary.—The Borough shares with
Hackney the premises lying adjacent to the Metropolitan Hospital,
paying one-third of the expenses. These include the necessary
waiting room, dressing rooms, doctor's rooms, laboratory, office
and dispensary. The rooms are warmed by gas radiators.
The Clinical Tuberculosis Officer attends for the following
sessions to examine and supervise cases and "contracts" referred
to him by general practitioners or by the Medical Officer of Health:
Monday 10.30 a.m. to 12.30 p.m.
Tuesday 5 to 6 p.m. School Children; 6 to 7.30 Adults
Wednesday 1.15 to 2.15 p.m.
Thursday 10.30 a.m. to 12.30 p.m.
Friday 6 to 7.30 p.m.
5. Treatment Centres for Venereal Disease—Arrangements
are made by the L.C.C., and the nearest Centres are at the
Metropolitan Hospital and the Royal Northern Hospital.