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Wood Green 1937

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

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Details of these Clinics and centres are shown in leaflets which
have been provided at all the Post Offices in the Borough and are
available there on request.
MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE.
The number of live births registered during 1937 as belonging
to Wood Green was 659 according to the information supplied by
the Registrar-General. The number of births registered in the
Borough during the year was 449, and the percentage notified under
the Notification of Births Act, was 93.6. The number of stillbirths
registered was 20, and the number notified 18.
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.
The attendances at the Centres during the year are shown in
the following table:—
January
1,234
February
1,326
March
1,549
April
1,345
May
1,274
June
1,846
July
1,461
August
1,183
September
1,853
October
1,414
November
1,350
December
1,548
Total
17,383