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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 1947
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wembley]
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Hospitals—Home Helps—Specialist Medical Services, Gynagcological
and Post-Natal Clinics, Birth Control Sessions for married
women requiring birth control advice for medical reasons,
ophthalmic cases, orthopaedic cases, child guidance cases, speech
difficulty cases referred to Special Clinics — Clinic for children
showing deafness or defective speech from deafness, or allergic
asthma, etc., conditions, at Metropolitan Ear, Nose and Throat
Hospital—Economic Circumstances Scale according to which Milk
and Accessory Foods, Artificial Dentures, Convalescent Treatment,
Maternity Outfits, and Home and Domestic Helps available, scale
depending on number in family and net income per head of
family—Nursery Service 368 places, until the closure of District
Road Nursery, Nurseries open daily, Monday to Saturday, opening
and closing times as demand requires, daily charge 1/- per child,
inclusive of all food given (morning lunch, midday dinner, and
tea), Medical Officers attend the Nurseries regularly and all the
Services of the Clinics available for children.
2. DEVELOPMENT 10 YEARS, 1937-1947, (a) New services
provided—Premature infant scheme, Adoption of Children
(Regulation) Act, 1939, Toddler Clinics, Diphtheria Immunisation
Sessions, test feeding scales on loan, coupons re sheets in home
confinements, panel of Consultants for abnormal confinements,
Emergency Maternity Unit, blood examinations at Ante-Nata^
Clinics, Scheme for Unmarried Mothers, Specialist Clinics, Day
Nursery Services; (b) Expansion of existing services—5 new
Health Clinic premises, 2 Clinic premises of Middlesex County
Council now administered by the Borough:—
Weekly Sessions held:—
1937. 1947.
Infant Welfare 11 17
Ante-Natal 1½ 12
Dental 2 55
Gynaecological ½ 1½
Percentage of Expectant Mothers
attending Ante-Natal Clinics 36.3 68.5
Number of attendances:—
Children under 1 year 25,838 41,694
Children 1—5 years 16,808 14,498
Expectant Mothers 2,046 11,215
Dental Clinics—total attendances 1,259 4,006
Dentures supplied 63 117
Maternity Outfits supplied 18 609
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