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The new Centre at Market Street, Woolwich, to be known as the Woolwich
Central Health Centre, was completed during the year and was opened on the 14th
January, 1939, by Lord Horder. It replaces the Old Town Hall Infant Welfare
Centre and Artificial Sunlight Clinic and the School Treatment Centre at Brewer
Street. The following is taken from the Booklet prepared for the opening ceremony :
"In 1931 the Woolwich Borough Council opened, at Eltham, the first municipal
centre in London which provided accommodation on the same premises for school
medical and maternity and child welfare services. A year later the maternity and
child welfare centre at Plumstead was enlarged, providing additional accommodation
for this purpose and also rooms for the school medical service. Now in the old
parish of Woolwich the third combined centre in the Borough has been erected.