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Plaque

Maternity and Child Welfare Centre, Elsdale Street

Erection date: 25/6/1938

Inscription

Metropolitan Borough of Hackney
This stone was laid on the 25th June 1938 by The Mayoress of Hackney (Mrs C. Capell)

Maternity and Child Welfare Committee
Chairman Councillor G. C. Burton
Vice Chairman Councillor Mrs L. E. Golbourn
{List of 11 Councillors and 1 Alderman. See Subjects commemorated.}

Non-members of Council
{List of 4 women. See Subjects commemorated.}

G. H. Dart, MD, DPh - Medical Officer of Health
Perceval Holt, M. Inst., CE - Borough Engineer, Architect
J. & J. Dean Ltd – General Contractors

Site: Maternity and Child Welfare Centre, Elsdale Street (1 memorial)

E9, Elsdale Street, 28, Elsdale Street Surgery

The 1930s building has been extended upwards and backwards.

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This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Maternity and Child Welfare Centre, Elsdale Street

Subjects commemorated i

Maternity and Child Welfare Centre, Elsdale Street

This image comes from Google Steet View of April 2015. The 1871 map shows eit...

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J. & J. Dean Ltd

J.& J. Dean built one of the houses in the 1911 Romford Garden Suburb exh...

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Councillor H. Altman

Member of Hackney's Maternity and Child Welfare Committee in 1938.

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Councillor G. C. Burton

Chair of Hackney's Maternity and Child Welfare Committee in 1938.

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G. H. Dart, MD, DPh

Hackney's Medical Officer of Health in 1938. Hackney Society notes that he wa...

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This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Maternity and Child Welfare Centre, Elsdale Street

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Clara Emma Capell

Wife of Alderman Henry W. Capell, JP, who was Mayor of Hackney 1937-38. Clar...

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