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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
Woolwich 1923
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Woolwich]
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A general hospital is urgently required in Woolwich, not
only for the purposes of this Borough but to serve that large
extra-metropolitan area east of Woolwich where no general
hospital exists. Money for this purpose has been collected
each year since 1919 and in 1923 the Council, as work for the
relief of unemployment, levelled the site, made the approach
roads and constructed the foundations: It is important in
the public interests that the remainder of the work should
be expedited.
The number of deaths of Woolwich residents which occurred
in the local Infirmaries was as follows :—Woolwich Infirmary,
323 ; Lewisham Infirmary, 67.
I am able to give the following information :—
| 3 | |
| Babies in the Home on 1st Januar.y, 1923 | 3 |
| Mothers admitted during 1923 | 8 |
| Babies do. do. | 3 |
| Births | |
| Deaths(Child) | |
| Average duration of stay of each completed case 6 months | |
| Mothers who attended ante-natal clinics of the Borough Council | |
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