Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for Chelsea, 1930
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TABLE No. 5. Births in Hospitals and Nursing. Homes.
Chelsea Births in Hospitals and Nursing Homes Within the Borough. | Chelsea Births in Hospitals and Nursing Homes Outside the Borough. | ||
---|---|---|---|
St. Luke's Hospital and Institution | 165 | St. George's Hospital | 36 |
St. Stephen's Hospital and In stitution | 5 | Queen Charlotte's Hospital | 25 |
Clapham Maternity Hospital | |||
Ormond Maternity Home | General Lying-in Hospital | 3 | |
Wilbraham Nursing Home | 5 | Royal Free Hospital | 4 |
Chelsea Hospital for Women | 1 | Miscellaneous Hospitals | 31 |
Royal Avenue Nursing Home | 1 | Nursing Homes | |
136 |
From Table No. 4 it will be observed that the number of births of
Chelsea Infants in Hospitals and elsewhere outside Chelsea accounted
for 19*1 per cent, of the total births. In the preceding year the percentage
was 25.3.
NOTIFICATION OF BIRTHS ACT, 1907.
Under the above Act, all live and still births occurring after the 28th
week of pregnancy must be reported within 36 hours to the Medical
Officer of Health of the district in which the birth takes place. This
information is extremely valuable, as it enables the Health Visitor to
exercise supervision of the mother and child shortly after confinement.
During the year, 833 births were notified as occurring in Chelsea.
Of this number, in 221 instances the parents were resident in other
Boroughs, and information of such births was transmitted to the Medical
Officer of Health concerned. Information was received of 153 births
amongst Chelsea mothers in Lying-in hospitals and elsewhere outside
the Borough.
The total number of notified Chelsea births from all sources was 765.
TABLE No. 6.
Notification received from. | chelsea residents. | Non- Residents. | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Live Births. | Still Births. | Total. | Live Births. | Still Births. | Total. | |
Medical Practitioners | 141 | 2 | 143 | 55 | — | 55 |
Midwives | 262 | 3 | 265 | 62 | — | 62 |
Poor Law Institutions | 180 | 7 | 187 | 100 | 3 | 103 |
Parents | 17 | — | 17 | 1 | — | 1 |
000 | 12 | 612 | 218 | 3 | 221 |