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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Islington 1920
Sixty-fifth annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Metropolitan Borough of Islington
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1920]
STATEMENT OF WORK PERFORMED BY THE VOLUNTARY
MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE CENTRES:—
North Islington Maternity and Child Welfare Centre.
Number of Expectant Mothers on books - 403
„ Attendances 1,164
„ Consultations held 99
Number of Babies attending (all ages) 1,642
„ „ (under 1 year) 1,341
„ Attendances 12,978
„ Consultations and weighings - 8,954
Number of Attendances of Morning Callers 1,989
Number of Sewing Classes 110
„ Attendances 819
Number of Health Talks 312
„ Attendances 5,504
Number of Visits—Professional 10,426
„ „ —Voluntary 907
Dental Clinic—Attendances 667
„ ,, —Patients treated 256
Convalescent Homes—Mothers and children
sent to 163
Number of Patients treated in Wards 162
„ Babies „ „ 122
„ Mothers „ „ 40
Milk for necessitous Mothers (average per
month) 179
Number of Deaths—Infant 33
„ „ —Other 17
Infant Mortality (based on per 1,000 infants
under 1 year attending centre) 24.6
South Islington Maternity and Child Welfare Centre.
Ante-Natal Cases.
Number of Mothers 208
Full Term Births 102
Premature Births 6
Still Births 2
Miscarriages 5
Not yet confined 78