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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Hackney 1950
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]
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WESLEYAN CHURCH HALL, MAYFIELD ROAD—hired rooms.—One of the first welfare
centres, instituted by the Borough Council.
MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE CENTRE, 136, RICHMOND ROAD.—The first specially
built and equipped maternity and child welfare centre for Hackney erected in 1936, to replace
Mayfield Road Centre, and opened in 1937. The premises accommodated infant welfare, anteand
post-natal, gynaecological, foot, artificial sunlight, dental, diphtheria immunisation clinics,
dispensary, lecture hall, isolation rooms, and perambulator store.