[Report 1937] / Medical Officer of Health, Kirkby-in-Ashfield U.D.C.

  • Kirkby-in-Ashfield (England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1937
Catalogue details

Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Credit: [Report 1937] / Medical Officer of Health, Kirkby-in-Ashfield U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    20/70 (page 18)
    Child Welfare Clinic. These are held in the Clinic Building, Urban Bead. There were 96 sessions held during the year. The total attendances at all the sessions were 4,980 mothers and 5,015 children ; of these, 8,220 were children under 1 year of age, and 1,795 between 1 and 5 years. Of the children attending the Clinic for the first time during 1937, 265 were under 1 year of age, and 85 between 1 and 5 years. The attendances made by mothers and children from the South Ward totalled 669 mothers and 709 for children. Doctors’ consultations at all Child Welfare sessions totalled 434. 45 children made 492 attendances at the Orthopaedic Clinic, Mansfield. The number of midwives practising in the area is 5. Dlstrsbtitloii of Food, 1957. Goods sold during the year :— £ s. d. 3519 lbs. Cow and Gate 586 lbs. Ostermilk 132 lbs. Ambrosia 295 15 0 48 16 8 110 0 1865 tins Ovaltine 825 tins Virol 142 tins Colact 77 tins Maltaline 116 11 3 34 7 6 10 13 0 2 11 4 1069 tins Trufood 189 tins Lactogel 8 bottles Emulsion 87 half-cream, Cow and Gate 187 Adexolin Capsules 59 bottles Cod Liver Oil ... 106 18 0 11 16 3 9 4 6 10 6 4 13 6 2 4 3 £652 6 7