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8
GENERAL PROVISION FOR HEALTH SERVICES
FOR THE AREA.
The arrangements set out in detail in the Annual Report for
1938 relating to the general provision of health services for the
Borough remain unchanged, and may be regarded as satisfactory.
MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE.
The number of live births registered during the year 1939 as
belonging to Wood Green was 624, according to the information
supplied by the Registrar-General. The number of births registered
during the year in the Borough was 413, and the percentage notified
under the Public Health Act, 1936, was 96.4. The number of stillbirths
was 26, and the number notified 25.
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 was 15,030,
compared with 17,196 in 1938 and 17,383 in 1937. The falling off
in the number of attendances occurred during the last four months
of the year, after the outbreak of war.
The attendances at the Centre in the Alexandra Park area
numbered 2,314, as compared with 3,287 in 1938 and 3,022 in 1937.
The number of individual children brought to the Centres
during the year was 1,712, of whom 836 were infants under 1 year
of age and 876 of from 1 to 5 years of age.