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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

Wood Green 1936

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wood Green]

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Child Welfare Centres.
Maternity and Child Welfare Clinics were held at the Centre
in White Hart Lane on Monday afternoons, Wednesday mornings
and afternoons and Friday mornings and in the Hall attached to the
Congregational Church at the junction of Alexandra Park Road
and Albert Road on Thursday mornings throughout the year.

Table: The attendances at the Centres during the year are shown in the following table:—

The attendances at the Centres during the year are shown in the following table:—

January1,222
February1,097
March1,318
April1,362
May1,381
June1,293
July1,784
August1,066
September1,861
October1,888
November1,127
December1,468
Total16,867

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The attendances in 1935 were 15,308 and in 1934, |14,559.
The attendances at the Centre in the Alexandra Park area
numbered 2,699, as compared with 2,380 in 1935, and 1,995 in
1934.
The number of individual children brought to the Centres
during the year was 1,522, of whom 768 were infants under 1
year of age, and 754 of from 1 to 5 years of age.
The number of children seen by Dr. Miller at the Centres
during the year was 1,488. 764 of these were infants under 12