Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Heston and Isleworth]
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According to the County Medical Officer's last list, there arcs
15 midwives practicing in the district.
MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE CLINICS.
The new premises for the Hounslow Maternity and Child
Welfare Clinic were opened on Wednesday, December 3rd, 1924, and
owing to the restriction of days when the premises were available,
the Clinics were reduced to two, held on Wednesday and Thursday,
and a separate ante-natal clinic is hell at the original premises in
the Council House. The new premises are an immense improvement,
there being ample room in the Waiting Room. We have
not yet been able to secure sufficient volunteers to take the toddlers
in a room apart.
The attendances totalled 8817 for the year as compared with
8322 in 1923, and 8398 in 1922.
The average attendance at the Council House and later at
Douglas Road Centre was 35.6, and at the Isleworth Centre 33 7.
The number of individual mothers and children attending the Clinics is shewn hereunder
Council House, Hounslow. | Isleworth Public Hall. | |||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1920. | 1921. | 1922. | 1923 | 1924. | 1920. | 1921. | 1922 | 1923. | 1924. | |
Mothers | 315 | 538 | 541 | 525 | 530 | 170 | 268 | 278 | 270 | 381 |
Children | 407 | 774 | 726 | 646 | 610 | 185 | 296 | 350 | 330 | 489 |
Sales at Clinics.
Quantity. | Receipts | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
£ | s. | d. | ||
Glaxo | 7064 lbs. | 519 | 15 | 6 |
Virol | 384 lbs. 6 ozs | 32 | 0 | 7½ |
Malt | 396 lbs. | 16 | 5 | 1 |
Oil and Malt | 475 lbs. | 18 | 18 | 0 |
Marylebone Cream | 18½ lbs. | 1 | 10 | 11 |
Lactagol | 172 pkts. | 9 | 19 | 6 |
Almata | 46 lbs. | 3 | 9 | 0 |
Cow & Gate | 32 lbs. | 3 | 1 | 4 |
£ 604 | 19 | l1½ |