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Clerical :
Miss M. R. A. Austin
D. Buck
Miss O. E. Carty
Mrs. C. Fletcher
A. E. Goad
Miss P. Kilpatrick
Mrs. B. W. King
J. W. Lewington
Miss E. Newman
Miss E. M. Page
L. J. Pike
Miss J. G. Shreer
Miss A. G. Smith
Mrs. M. V. Smith
Miss D. Stephenson
Miss I. Stittle
Miss V. N. Webb
Motor Driver : A. G. Robertson.
Store-keeper: R. W. Smith.
The following is a list of staff transferred to the Regional Hospital Board:—
Dr. E. V. Saunders-Jacobs (Tuberculosis Officer and Deputy Medical
Officer of Health).
Dr. A. McManus.
The following buildings or tenancies were taken over by the local health
authority:—
Woolwich. Central Health Centre, Market Street; North Woolwich Maternity
and Child Welfare Centre, Fernhill Street.
Plumstead. Plumstead Health Centre, Plumstead High Street.
Slade Maternity and Child Welfare Centre, Timbercroft Lane.
Eltham. Eltham Maternity and Child Welfare Centre, Lionel Road.
Horn Park Maternity and Child Welfare Centre, Alnwick Road.
New Eltham Maternity and Child Welfare Centre, Footscray Road.
St. Luke's Maternity and Child Welfare Centre, Westmount Road.
The following buildings or tenancies were taken over by the Regional Hospital
Board:—
Tuberculosis Dispensary, Maxey Road, Plumstead.
Branch Tuberculosis Dispensary, Carnecke Gardens, Eltham.
Eltham Hill Health Centre, Sherard Road, Eltham. The original plans
for this Centre provided for the following services:—Physical Medicine and artificial
sunlight; tuberculosis ; chiropody and cleansing of verminous persons.
On the appointed day this building, which was temporarily finished during the
war for use as a gas cleansing station, was in use as a Cleansing Station and Chiropody
Clinic. No decision had been made at the end of the year on the Authority to control
this building.
The Maternity and Child Welfare Service can be said to have commenced
in Woolwich in the year 1906, when the first part-time health visitor was appointed
and the Council established a Milk Depot. The Infant Mortality rate for this year
was 111 ; the lowest rate was the year 1947, viz. 27, and for 1948 it was 29.
The milk depot was first recommended by the Medical Officer in a special
report on summer diarrhoea in 1904, when 135 deaths occurred from that disease.
Most of the babies supplied with milk were brought fortnightly to be weighed, and
on one afternoon a week advice was given to mothers regarding their babies. This
depot, therefore, was the fore-runner of the present extensive welfare centre service.
The depot was closed in July, 1909.