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clinic was brought into use on 28 September with a ceremony held at the premises of
Messrs. Cossors in Highbury. From the end of the year onwards the clinic was placed on a
site adjoining the Arsenal Stadium on match Saturday afternoons, so that adolescents and
young adults, whose attention was drawn to this facility in the club programmes and, at
half-time, over the public address system, could obtain vaccination immediately on leaving
the stadium.
Up to the end of the year the mobile immunisation clinic had carried out the following
work:
Number of visits made to:
Factories and offices 42 Youth centres 6
Further education establishments Arsenal Stadium 5
and schools 15
Total number of injections given — 1,594
Premises—The Newington Green school treatment centre, which had been housed in a
church hall, was closed and its activities transferred to the South Islington welfare centre,
Clephane Road, where better accommodation could be provided for the service and the
integration of the maternity and child welfare service and the school health service carried
a step further.
DIVISION 4, comprising the boroughs of Hackney, Shoreditch and Stoke Newington
Dr. S. King reports:
Woodberry Down health centre—The services provided at the health centre were maintained
and there was little change in the level of general medical and dental work.
In April an ante-natal clinic was established in co-operation with the Bearsted Memorial
hospital, the Council providing a medical officer and the premises, while supervision is
provided by the hospital's consultant obstetricians. The usual ante-natal facilities at the
centre are available to these mothers. This is a noteworthy step towards the full co-operation
in maternity services urged in the report of the Cranbrook Committee.
Extra accommodation was provided for the child guidance unit and a second educational
psychologist was employed.
The pathological service available to general practitioners within a two mile radius from
the health centre, suspended for eight months following the resignation of the technician,
was resumed in October.
A mental health seminar was held in June. In the same month a local office of the
Children's department was established in the health centre.
Prophylaxis—The marked increase in the number of persons given two injections against
poliomyelitis was due partly to the extension of the inoculation scheme to persons born
not earlier than 1933 and partly to public reaction following the death of a professional
footballer. An intensive local publicity campaign was launched in September in conjunction
with Division 3 but the response was small.
Co-operation with other organisations—Blood donor sessions were held at Woodberry
Down and Shoreditch health centres. Co-operation with hospitals in the division, particularly
in the inoculation against poliomyelitis of expectant mothers, has been very good.
An information bulletin for distribution at quarterly intervals to all general practitioners
offering services in the division was introduced early in 1959. Chiropody sessions for
elderly persons are run by the Stoke Newington Old People's Welfare Committee at
Woodberry Down health centre and at Barton House.
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