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 Hackney]
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Government Board. No medicinal treatment has been carried on
at the Centre, or at least only of the very simplest kind, but in
many cases requiring medicinal treatment, the mother has been
advised to consult her own doctor, and if she is unable to employ
a private doctor she has taken a signed note from the Centre to
a hospital. As a rule, the hospitals have been very considerate in
the treatment of these cases.
(Signed) J. Lawson Dick, M.D., F.R.C.S.
3rd February, 1918.
I remain,
Yours obediently,
J. KING WARRY, M.D., M.R.C.P., D.P.H.,
Medical Officer of Health.