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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 1931

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Woolwich]

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Table: TABLE No. 69.Children in Attendance at each Centre.

TABLE No. 69.

Children in Attendance at each Centre.

Year of Birth.Town Hall.Plum stead.Eltham.Slade.New Eltham.St. Luke's.North Woolch.Beres-ford St.Totals.
19315013452221121239532311,461
1930501328324118999039361,535
19292871691768862552825890
19281881261405738361722624
192711575108353534157424
19264847541781325194
1,6401,0901,0244273653231331265,128
Attendances.
19313,5182,7591,6981,0461,51284321917211,767
19304,3433,3752,5721,4681,81571533236914,989
19291,3699167806454572371091984,711
1928790606449316238102661162,683
192740125426619316212034261,456
192611911810477393127497
10,5408,0285,8693,7454,2232,04876288836,103

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These figures, which do not include the attendances at the Special Toddlers
Clinic, or at the Sunlight Clinic, shew an increase over any previous year, the
highest previous figure being 35,220, recorded in 1930. Of these attendances,
23,135 were made by children under one year of age, and 12,968 by children over
that age. As the estimated number of children under one at the middle of the
year was 2,063, and over one year of age 8,444, these figures demonstrate quite
clearly the relatively small number of attendances made by children over one year
of age.
Feeding of Infants in Woolwich. In midsummer the usual enquiry was made,
as in previous years, as to the type of feeding adopted in the case of infants
attending the welfare centres. The method used was as follows:—