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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
Hendon 1936
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hendon]
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etc. This supervision of the young child is so designed that
it is carried on when the child enters school, and a complete
liaison has been established between the School Medical
Services and the Child Welfare Services made more complete
by the same staff being employed in both.
The following table shows the admissions during the year:—
| Redhill County Hospital | 58 |
| City of London Maternity Hospital | 14 |
| Queen Charlotte's Maternity Hospital | 1 |
| Queen Mary's Maternity Hospital | 1 |
| St. Pancras Hospital | 1 |
| 75 |
A measure which will profoundly affect the midwifery
of the country, namely the Midwives Act, 1936, was passed.
This Act places on Local Supervising Authorities the responsibility
of providing an adequate service of domiciliary
midwifery by salaried midwives and makes provision for