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Leyton 1938
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Leyton]
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MATERNITY AND CHILD
WELFARE.
INFANT WELFARE.
Notification of Births.—Fourteen hundred and eighty-five
notifications of births were received during the year.
By medical practitioners 408
By midwives 1,077
By parents and others Nil.
Child Welfare Clinics.
LEYTON GREEN CLINIC.
Leyton Green Road, Leyton, E.10.
Mondays 1.45 p.m.
Wednesdays 1.45 p.m.
Fridays 10 a.m.
Fridays 1.45 p.m.
PARK HOUSE CLINIC.
Granleigh Road, Leytonstone, E.11.
Mondays 1.45 p.m.
Tuesdays 10 a.m.
Tuesdays 1.45 p.m.
Thursdays 1.45 p.m.
During the year under review, the total attendances at the
Council's Infant Welfare Centres were 18,581, an increase of 756
compared with the figure (17,825) for the previous year. The
number of children examined by the Clinic Medical Officers was
7,040 as compared with 6,674 examined during the previous year.