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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
Edmonton 1943
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Edmonton]
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infant life protection.
Each Health Visitor employed by the Council is an Officer for Infant Life
Protection and groat care is taken by then in-supervising this part of the
work. The number of persons on the register at the end of 1943 was 25
and the number of children 29.
WAR-TIME NURSERIES.
Attendances for the whole year were:-
Fore Street-15,718.
Hertford Road - 12,100.
Florence Road - 9,755 (Opened 27th January, 1943).
The evacuated nursery at Harpenden had places for 28 children but was closed
in February owing to staffing problems.