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GENERAL PROVISION OF HEALTH SERVICES IN THE AREA.
Clinics and Treatment Centres. In tabular form below are shown the
arrangements in being during the year at each of the Council's Maternity and Child
Welfare Clinics and Treatment Centres.
Woolwich Central Health
Centre.
In use as a first aid post but maternity and
child welfare and ante-natal clinics held
throughout the year.
Plumstead Health Centre
In use as a first aid post throughout the year.
Emergency arrangements made for holding
clinics in the Juvenile Library of the Plumstead
Library, which adjoins this Centre.
Eltham Health Centre
In use as a first aid post. Child welfare
clinics held two days weekly during the
year. Ante-natal services transferred to
Horn Park Centre.
Wesley Hall,
Timbercroft Lane.
Church Hall continued to be used as a maternity
and child welfare clinic during the year.
New Eltham
Hall taken over for other purposes. Clinics
held during the greater part of the year at
the First Aid Post, Legal and General Sports
Pavilion.
St. Luke's Church Hall,
Westmount Road.
Clinics continued to be held during the year.
Elizabeth Street,
North Woolwich.
Taken over as a first aid post but clinics held
until September. Clinics were then held
at the Storey Street School, by arrangement
with East Ham Borough Council.
Horn Park
Open throughout the whole year for ante-natal
and infant welfare clinics.
The attendances at the maternity and child welfare centres during the year
were : expectant mothers, 2,797; nursing mothers, 773; children, 24,489.
Health Visiting. The arrangements made for the visiting of children between
the ages of one and five are described in previous Annual Reports. The number
of such visits paid during 1940 was 14,046. The total number of visits paid by
health visitors was 18,693.
Infant Life Protection. The fall in the number of registered foster mothers
apparent since the Council took over this service continued. There were only 20
of these in 1940, compared with 36 in 1939. The number of nurse children was 21.
The number of visits paid by the infant life protection visitors was 324.