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Southgate 1942

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southgate]

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Pre-Natal
Combined Clinic, Bowes Road,
New Southgate. Wednesday 10-12
Methodist Church, Palmerston Road,
Bowes Park. Thursday 10-12
Post-Natal.
Combined Clinic, Bowes Road, First Tuesday in
New Southgate. each month, 10-12
IMMUNISATION (against diphtheria) CLINIC -
(Southgate Council)
Town Hall, Palmers Green. Thursday 2-4
The Tuberculosis, Venereal Disease and School
Clinics (Middlesex County Council) continue as set
out in the Report for 1938.
INSTITUTIONAL PROVISION for unmarried mothers,
illegitimate infants and homeless children. No change
from the arrangements in the Report for 1930.
AMBULANCE FACILITIES.- The details set out in the
Annual Report for 193-5, as amended by the alterations
referred to in the Reports for 1936 and 1939 still
obtain.
MORTUARY.- During 1942, 49 bodies were deposited
in the Council's mortuary situated at the rear of
the Town Hall. Forty-nine post-mortem examinations
were held.
LABORATORY FACILITIES.- The following table's set" out
the work carried out at the Council's laboratory, and
at -other laboratories to which material was sent during
1942.
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