[Report 1937] / Medical Officer of Health, Birmingham.

  • Birmingham (England). Council.
Date:
1937
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Credit: [Report 1937] / Medical Officer of Health, Birmingham. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    COST Net cost per meal, excluding wages and overhead charges 3*4d. Approximate total cost per meal, including wages and overhead charges.... 5'Od. Toddlers’ “Breakfast” Meals At eighteen centres half a pint of milk and bread and butter were served to toddlers at 9-0 a.m. on five days during the week, and half a pint of milk was taken home to be given to the children later in the day. Number of individual children attending. . . . 1817 Total attendances made 169267 Carnegie Infant Welfare Institute Carnegie Institute, Hunters Road, Hockley. This institution was presented to the Maternity and Child Welfare Committee by the Carnegie Trustees in 1923 to serve as a model child welfare centre and observation ward. The child welfare centre occupies the ground floor, a dental clinic and X-ray department are provided in the basement, and the observation ward (ten beds) is on the first floor with accommodation for resident staff. During the year 1937 the routine work of the Carnegie Institute has proceeded as usual. The average attendance at the infant consultations is maintained at fifty-nine per clinic. There are five infant consultations each week. The attendance at the ante-natal clinics has increased considerably. The municipal midwives now bring their booked cases in person to the centre, and are thus working in nmch closer collaboration with the doctor and health visitors than formerly. The educational classes have been well attended, and there has been an increase in the number of mothers attending the test feeding clinics. The toddlers’ class continues to do excellent work. Several children have been sent by private doctors for special observation. The Walker Shield has been won by the Carnegie Institute for the fourth time ; it was decided, with the approval of Mrs. Walker, that the shield should be won outright by the Centre. It has been hung in the waiting hall, and was unveiled by Mrs. Walker during Baby Week on July 7th. The Parents’ League of Health has had a successful year. Six lectures have been given and the Monument Road Centre is now affiliated to the League.