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Edmonton 1944

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Edmonton]

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CLERICAL.
Miss R. S. Saunders (Senior Clerk).
Miss N. A. Eyres.
Miss H. P. Turton.
Miss W. S. Beattie. Left September, 1944.
Miss J. Blatter.
Mrs. V. Carter.
MATRONS—NURSERIES.
Fore Street h Miss M. W. Betteridge.
Hertford Road cj Mrs. I. Drummond.
Florence Road c Mrs. L. Myers.
Silver Street c Mrs. Mundy.
The following information gives details of the Maternity and Child Welfare
Clinics at the end of 1944 :—
(1) Ante-Natal Clinic at Brookfield House, Fore Street (adjoining
the Town Hall). Six sessions weekly.
(2) Child Welfare Centres :—
(a) Brookfield House. Three sessions weekly.
(b) Methodist Church Hall, Bush Hill Park. One session
weekly.
(c) St. Edmund's Church Hall. Two sessions weekly.
(d) Weir Hall. Two sessions weekly.
(e) St. John's. One session weekly.
(3) Post-Natal and Advisory Clinic at Brookfield House. One
session weekly.
(4) Dental Clinic at Croyland Road School Clinic. Two sessions
weekly.
(5) Orthopaedic Clinic at Methodist Central Hall, Fore Street. Two
sessions weekly.
(6) Obstetric Surgeon attends once a fortnight at Brookfield House.
The following information will give some indication as to the work carried
out by the Department during the year 1944 :—

Births.

The total number of births notified during 1944 was as follows :—

Live births notified by midwives2,406
„ „ „ doctors and parents115
Still-births „ ,, midwives83
„ „ „ doctors3
2,607

These figures include births which have taken place in the North Middlesex
County Hospital, both of Edmonton and non-Edmonton residents; excluding
these latter the notified births of Edmonton residents are :—
Live births notified by midwives 1,191
„ „ „ „ doctors and parents 1ll
Still-births „ midwives 24
„ „ doctors 2
1,328
25