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Woolwich 1936
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Woolwich]
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The only institution in the Borough holding a certificate of exemption is the
Woolwich War Memorial Hospital.
The Work or the Welfare Centres.—These are eight in number and are
all municipal. Infant welfare sessions are held at all of them ; ante-natal sessions
are held at four—in three instances twice weekly and in one instance once a month.
With the inclusion of the monthly ante-natal sessions at North Woolwich, at the end
of the year 6.25 ante-natal sessions and 23 infant consultation and weighing sessions
were being held each week.
In tabular form below are shown detailed statistics for 1936 and the consolidated statistics for the previous year :—-
TABLE No. 9.
| Centre. | Number on Roll of Centre. | Number of Attendances. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mothers. | Children. | Mothers. | Children. | |||
| Expectant. | Nursing. | Expectant. | Nursing. | |||
| — | — | |||||
The next Table No. 10 shows the number of children attending each centre and
the number of attendances made by them during the year. It should be noted that
children are classified in the table by year of birth, so that the figures cannot be read
as under one year, under two years and so on. They illustrate, however, quite
definitely the fact that the toddler does not attend such clinics in large numbers,
and that as he gets older he attends less. The figures in this table do not include those
of the Toddlers Clinics or of the Sunlight Clinic.