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TREATMENT CENTRES AND CLINICS.
Under this heading a description is required of any developments or changes
in regard to treatment centres and clinics, including clinics solely for diagnosis or
consultation.
The Council has three health centres:—
No. 1. Accommodated temporarily at the Old Baths Establishment, No.
181, Marylebone Road, pending transfer to the new building in course
of erection on a site adjoining the Town Hall. This centre comprises a
tuberculosis dispensary, maternity and child welfare clinics and a
diphtheria immunisation clinic.
No. 2. A new building at No. 217, Lisson Grove with provision for maternity
and child welfare clinics and auxiliary services of various kinds, including
dental treatment, chiropody, child guidance, light therapy and massage.
No. 3. A new and smaller centre at No. 21a, Paddington Street, providing
ante-natal and child welfare clinics. (This centre was closed permanently
at the end of July, 1939).
In addition, consultations held at the Middlesex and Queen Charlotte's Hospitals
form part of the Council's maternity and child welfare scheme.
HOSPITALS : PUBLIC AND VOLUNTARY.
Hospital accommodation being a matter with which the Borough Councils in
London have no direct concern, it is not considered necessary to make special reference
to it. St. Marylebone is fortunate in the number of voluntary hospitals and
dispensaries of various kinds that are situated within its boundaries, and to these
cases from the welfare centres are referred as and when necessary. Queen Charlotte's
and the Middlesex Hospitals are available for ante-natal and complicated maternity
cases.
Nursing homes in the Borough number 35.
MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE.
There were no developments or changes in the maternity and child welfare
services apart from those occasioned by the war. From September, owing to the
evacuation of mothers and young children, only three of the five welfare centres
were in use as these were found to be sufficient to meet the demands made upon
the services. The clinics at Health Centres Nos. 1 and 3 were therefore closed down
for several months. With the return of the great majority of mothers and children
from the reception areas towards the end of the year it became necessary to provide
a normal service and all the centres were brought fully into use again. Table 14
gives an account of the work done during 1939. In addition to the centres named in
this table, consultations are held weekly at the Church Army Dispensary and the
St. Marylebone and Western General Dispensary.