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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Acton 1934
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Acton]
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Maternity Home.
The Council has an agreement with Middlesex Comity
Council for the admission of maternity cases into Park Royal
Hospital. The arrangements were reported fully in a previous
report. During 1934, 209 cases were admitted under this agreement.
Day Nursery.
The Nursery is situated in Bollo Bridge Road, and is open
on five days a week.
The Nursery wras open on 234 occasions, and 6,319 wholeday
attendances were made.
There has been an improvement in the number of attendances
this year.
Child Welfare Centres.
There has been no change in the arrangements for the Child
Welfare Centres since last year. Seven sessions are held weekly—
4 in Avenue Road, 1 each in Steele Road Mission, John Perryn
School and St. Gabriel's Hall.
Nurse Children.
At the end of the year 1933, there were 52 children and at
the end of the year 1934, there were 49 children on the register.