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1920]
East Islington Maternity and Child Welfare Centre.
Children under 1 year (attending Centred 412
Do. over 1 year „ „ 556
Mothers expectant 175
Consultations held 47
Total attendances (Children) 7,104
Home visits (by staff) 4,326
Do. (Voluntary) 29
Weighings only 2,368
Massage (attendances) 1,095
Deaths (under 1 year) 18
Do. (over 1 year) 10
Infant Mortality (based on per 1,000 infants
under 1 year 43.7
Milk for necessitous mothers 220
Dental Clinic—Patients treated 38
Convalescent Homes—Sent for treatment 5
DEATHS IN PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS.
Within the Borough. — 1,842 persons died in the Public Institutions
located in Islington, of whom 1,322 belonged to this borough, the remaining
520 having come here for treatment or relief. Of these, 337 died in the
Holborn Infirmary and gg in the Great Northern Central Hospital.
Of the 1,322 deaths of inhabitants, 917 occurred in the Islington
Infirmary, 242 in the Islington Institution, and 117 in the Great Northern
Central Hospital. The proportion which the 1,322 deaths in these public
institutions bore to the borough mortality was 29.5 per cent.
Without the Borough.—793 deaths of persons belonging to Islington
were registered as occurring in Public Institutions in districts of London
outside the borough and in various provincial towns. They included, among
others, 52 in the North-Western Fever Hospital, 47 in the Children's
Hospital, Great Ormond Street, 118 in St. Bartholomew's Hospital, 24 in
the Colney Hatch Asylum, 50 in the Royal Free Hospital, 63 in the
University College Hospital, 53 in the North-Eastern Fever Hospital, 34
in the Eastern Fever Hospital and 36 in the Claybury Asylum.
These 793 deaths represented 17.7 per cent. of all the deaths registered
in the year.