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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
Stepney 1921
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Stepney]
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The East London Nursing Society undertake the nursing of all cases of
Measles and Ophthalmia Neonatorum for the Stepney Borough Council. In
addition, any minor ailment which calls for skilled home nursing is referred
to them.
The Lady Forster Guest House at Sydenham, where so many Stepney
mothers and babies had a happy holiday, has had to close down for lack of
funds. Arrangements are now being made for the provision of beds at a
Convalescent Home for mothers and babies. The toddlers from two to five
years are sent to the Marjorie Lumley Home at Maidenhead. All the
children sent to this Home during the past year returned looking very healthy
and happy.
| Breast fed | 5,349 |
| Artificially fed | 225 |
| Mixed feeding | 278 |
| 5,852 | |
| Dead before first visit | 152 |
List of Infant Welfare Centres, Clinics and Creches in the Borough:—
1.
| Limehouse Town Hall, Commercial Road. | Monday Afternoon 2-4 (Consultation). |
| Thursday Morning 10-11.30. | |
| Thursday Afternoon 2-4 (Sewing Class). | |
| 52, Red Lion Street, Wapping. | Monday Afternoon 2-4 (Sewing Class). |
| Wednesday Alternate (Consultation). | |
| Thursday Afternoon 2-4 „ | |
| Friday Morning 10-11.30. | |
| Town Hall, Cable Street, St. George's. | Tuesday Afternoon 2-4 (Consultation). |
| Wednesday Morning 10-11.30. | |
| Wednesday Afternoon 2-4 (Sewing Class). | |
| F riday Morning 10-11.30. | |
| Bedford Institute, Quaker Street, Spitalfields. | Tuesday Afternoon 2-4 (Consultation). |
| Wednesday Afternoon 2-4 (Sewing Class). | |
| St. Phillip's Institute, Newark Street, Whitechapel. | Monday Morning 10-11.30. |
| Monday Afternoon 2-4 (Consultation). | |
| Tuesday Afternoon 2-4 (Sewing Class). | |
| Thursday Afternoon 2-4 (Consultation). |