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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 1942
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Acton]
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The attendances at Bollo Bridge Road Nursery were 6,810
during the year, and the Matron reports very favourably on the
health of the children in the Nursery during the year.
Matron of the War-time Nursery in Friars Place Lane reports
that since August 6th there have been 3,150 attendances, but that
during November and December there was an epidemic of Chicken
Pox.
Matron of "Longcot" reports that since the opening of the
Nursery on 5th October the attendances were 1,449.
Matron of Horn Lane Nursery reports that the average monthly
number of children on the register was 43, and that the attendances
from 1st April to 31st December were 7,053. Many children were
absent owing to Measles and Mumps.
TABLE 1.
| Number of Centres provided and maintained by the Council | 4 |
| Total number of attendances at all Centres during the year:— | |
| (a) by children under one year of age | 9,293 |
| (b) by children between 1 and 5 years of age | 4,368 |
| Number of children who attended for the first time during the year:— | |
| (a) under one year of age | 762 |
| (b) between 1 and 5 years of age | 218 |
| Percentage of notified live births represented by number of children who attended a Centre for the first time during the year | 80.4% |
| Children treated at Dental Clinic | 31 |
| Children treated at Ophthalmic Clinic | 19 |
| Mothers treated at Ophthalmic Clinic | 2 |
| Children operated on for enlarged Tonsils and Adenoids | 1 |
| Children operated on with X-Ray for Ringworm | — |