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a whole-time Assistant, and Dr. Ronald Hunter commenced his duties
on the 1st October. Dr. J. H. Rees, who had acted at the TubercuDispensary
also acted during a portion of August ond September,
pending Dr. Hunter taking up his duties.
By Order of the Council after obtaining the necessary confirmation,
diarrhoea in children of two years and under was made a notifiable
disease, and came into force on the 1st August.
It was found upon investigation that the work of the Albany
Institute Clinic, which had in the early days of its establishment served
mostly Deptford infants, had now comparatively few infants from the
Borough, its clientele being drawn mainly from Greenwich. No doubt
the opening of our municipal clinics, being nearer, had in large
part attracted the mothers. The few still attending the Albany Clinic
passed our own clinics on the way, and the Committee were of opinion
that the time of the Council's Health Visitor who attended the Albany
Clinic could be more usefully employed elsewhere. The severance of
the Albany Institute as an affiliated clinic was decided upon not without
regret, as undoubtedly it had in the past well served Deptford when the
municipal clinics were only being thought of. The disassociation on
the ground that the clinic was essentially a Greenwich one did not affect
the grant which the Council still continued to make in respect of the four
Deptford cots at the Babies' Home connected with the Albany Institute,
to which cases continued to be sent, and in this way Deptford is still
associated with the Institute which had done so much good work in the
past.
HEALTH WEEK.
Health Week was held from the 2nd to the 8th May. On Thursday.
6th May, a meeting for mothers was held in Zion Chapel, New Cross
Road, and on Saturday, the 8th, a mass meeting in Deptford Park.
VOLUNTARY WORKERS.
The Borough has been fortunate in the great interest which has
taken in its Infant Welfare Work. With the large numbers attending
the clinics and the many other duties which devolve upon the Health
Visitors, it is no exaggeration to say that, but for the help of the ladies
who assist voluntarily, the clinics would have been severely handicapped.
These ladies who week after week carry on with a true missionary
spirit this work, do so I am sure at considerable self-sacrifice. Not
only does the undertaking of this work tie them down to regular