Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wood Green]
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to the Congregational Church at the junction of Alexandra Park
Road and Albert Road on Thursday mornings throughout the
year.
The attendances at the Centres during the year are shown in
the following table:—
January 1,090
February 1,059
March 1,157
April 1,134
May 1,290
June 1,166
July 1,563
August 1,055
September 1,401
October 1,780
November 1,396
December 1,217
Total 15,308
The attendances in 1934 were 14,559.
The attendances at the Centre in the Alexandra Park area
numbered 2,380, as compared with 1,995 in 1934.
The number of individual children brought to the Centres
during the year was 1,489, of whom 687 were infants under 1 year
of age, and 802 of from 1 to 5 years of age.
The number of children seen by Dr. Miller at the Centres during
the year was 1,466. 681 of these were infants under 12 months
of age, who made 2,955 attendances, while 785 were children of
from 1 to 5 years of age and their attendances numbered 2,166.
Of the 27 infantile deaths which occurred during the year, in
only 6 cases had the baby been brought to one of the Welfare Centres.