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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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INFANT WELFARE DOCTOR'S ROOM, HAMPDEN CHAPEL, LAURISTON ROAD.
INFANT WELFARE DOCTOR'S ROOM AT ELSDALE STREET CENTRE.—This specially built
and equipped maternity and child welfare centre opened in 1939 replaced the centre at hired
rooms at Hampden Chapel, Lauriston Road. The premises accommodated infant welfare, anteand
post-natal, artificial sunlight, massage, diphtheria immunisation clinics, dispensary, isolation
room, lecture hall and perambulator store.