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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

Wembley 1946

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wembley]

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Table: Number of visits of Health Visitors:—

Number of visits of Health Visitors:—

1936.1946.
To Expectant Mathers1,1964,136
To children under 1 year6,0089,621
To children 1—5 years5,70011,871

Table: 3. In their consideration of the programme of capital expenditure the Council submitted to the Ministry of Health the following propositions:—

3. In their consideration of the programme of capital expenditure the Council submitted to the Ministry of Health the following propositions:—

£
(a) 1947/48—5 Day Nurseries, estimated cost £5,000 each, total25,000
(!b) 1948/49—1 Day Nursery5,000
Health Centres:—
(i) The Avenue, to serve Barn Hill and Chalkhill districts7,000
(ii) Regal Way to serve Kenton district7,000
Total£44,000

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4. The statistics continue to show the high acceptance by
the public of the various services, their development being
demonstrated in Paragraph 2. The cost per attendance of persons
attending the following Clinics—Infant Welfare, Ante-Natal,
Post-Natal, Dental, Gynaicological, Orthopaidic, Ophthalmic, Child
Guidance, together with the services provided thereat—for the
year April, 1945, to March, 1946, has been extracted, and these
services—medical, nursing and ancillary and including, of course,
the maintenance of the Clinic buildings, together with the services
arranged to be given elsewhere, have been provided at 3/per
visit at the Clinics.
5. Mr. J. D. Flew has contributed the following paragraphs
on the Gynaecology and Post-Natal Clinics:—
The Gynecological and Post-Natal Clinics were started in
November, 1945, and I have had the pleasure of being in charge
of them.
Five Clinics are held each month at four different centres
in the Borough and an average of 15 patients is seen at each
session. Each patient comes by appointment and the number of
defaulters has been very small.
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