[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bethnal Green Borough].

  • Bethnal Green (London, England). Metropolitan Borough.
Date:
[1932]
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    15 I have been furnished with the following infor mation concerning the work of the day nurseries:— Somerford Street. Bishops Road. Accommodation 28 50 Average number of children attending 27 43 Total Attendances 5,846 10,968 Certain of the children attending the Somerford Street Day Nursery also attend the Council's Welfare Centre every week for light treatment and some are sent away to country homes during the summer. ORPHANS. There is a branch of the National Children's Home and Orphanage situated in Bonner Road. MATERNITY. Public. The Borough Council has two Maternity Clinics, one at Cornwall Road, and one at St. Matthew's Institute, Hereford Street, at which a variety of work for maternal welfare is carried on. The Council also employs a midwife, who resides in the borough. (For further particulars see the section of this report dealing with Maternity and Child Welfare). London County Council: There are 18 beds in the Maternity ward in Bethnal Green Hospital. Dr. W. P. Greenwood informs me that 247 maternity cases were dealt with in the year. An ante-natal clinic is held weekly for women intending to enter the hospital for confinement and 226 women made 542 attendances at the Clinic. Other. There are 2 private midwives living and practising in the borough while about 6 others who reside outside also frequently practice in the borough.