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INFANT AND CHILD WELFARE CARE
BETWEEN THE WARS

This survey of Infant Welfare Centres, Maternity and Child Welfare Centres, Clinics and other variant titles, is based chiefly on the Reports of the Medical Officers of Health for the different local authorities in the London area.

The Reports for the year 1938 (published in 1939) have been chosen as the primary sources; this period represented a high-water point for municipal health provision, before the advent of war and subsequent dislocations surrounding the inauguration of the National Service in 1948.

Centres and Clinics were provided either directly by the local authority or through local voluntary groups. They employed both dedicated premises (often newly built in the 1930s) and a variety of borrowed or rented community facilities - often church halls.

Our survey reports on all the various centres mentioned in the Reports. However, modern photographs have been obtained only if the original buildings survive, or have been replaced on the same site by successor health- or community-oriented buildings.

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LOST HOSPITALS OF LONDON
	A brief history of healthcare provision in London

	INFANT AND CHILD WELFARE CARE BETWEEN THE WARS This survey of Infant Welfare Centres, Maternity and Child Welfare Centres, Clinics and other variant titles, is based chiefly on the Reports of the Medical Officers of Health for the different local authorities in the London area. The Reports for the year 1938 (published in 1939) have been chosen as the primary sources; this period represented a high-water point for municipal health provision, before the advent of war and subsequent dislocations surrounding the inauguration of the National Service in 1948. Centres and Clinics were provided either directly by the local authority or through local voluntary groups. They employed both dedicated premises (often newly built in the 1930s) and a variety of borrowed or rented community facilities - often church halls. Our survey reports on all the various centres mentioned in the Reports. However, modern photographs have been obtained only if the original buildings survive, or have been replaced on the same site by successor health- or community-oriented buildings. Next section: Maternity hospitals Previous section: Infant Welfare Centres Return to Contents list
	THE LONDON BOROUGHS in 1938 Acton Barking Barnes Barnet Battersea Beckenham Beddington and WallingTON Bermondsey Bethnal Green Bexley Brentford and Chiswick Bromley Camberwell Carshalton Chelsea Chigwell Chingford Chislehurst City of London (including Port of London) City of Westminster Coulsdon and Purley Crayford Croydon Dagenham Deptford Ealing East Barnet East Ham Edmonton Enfield Erith Feltham Finchley Finsbury Friern Barnet Fulham Gravesend Greenwich Hackney Hammersnith Hampstead Harrow Hayes and Harlington Hendon Heston and Isleworth Holborn Hornchurch Hornsey Ilford Islington Kensington Kingston-Upon-Thames Lambeth Lewisham Leyton London County Council Malden and Coombe Marylebone Merton and Morden Middlesex County Council Mitcham Orpington Paddington Penge Poplar Richmond-Upon-Thames Romford Ruislip-Northwood Shoreditch Southall-Norwood Southgate Southwark St Pancras Stepney Stoke Newington Sunbury-on-Thames Surbiton Sutton and Cheam Tottenham Twickenham Uxbridge Walthamstow Wanstead and Woodford Wembley West Ham Willesden Wimbledon Wood Green Woolwich Yiewsley and West Drayton THIS PAGE IS STILL UNDER CONSTRUCTION
	References The original documents from some 88 local authorities, taken from the archives of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, have recently been digitised by the Wellcome Library and are available online. These cover almost all of what we think of as London now.
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