Shoreditch Health Centre, Kingsland Road, Hackney, Greater London
This Health Centre, formerly the Shoreditch Maternity and Child Welfare Centre, was built in 1922-23 by Francis Danby Smith. It was a pioneering experiment in public healthcare providing one of Britain's first anti-natal and infant care outpatient clinics. It was built in response to the campaigns of the Maternity and Child Welfare Movement spearheaded by George Frederick McCleary from 1915 onwards. The cost of the work was paid for by the Carnegie UK Trust which also paid for the building of three other model centres at Liverpool, Birmingham and Motherwell.
