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Hampstead 1934
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hampstead Borough]
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Main Memorial Home, 141, West End Lane.
This Home was opened in August, 1934. It receives unmarried
.expectant mothers and mothers with young babies after discharge
from hospital. It has accommodation for 7 expectant mothers and
.7 mothers and babies.
St. Agatha's House, 39, Lancaster Road.
This Home receives unmarried expectant mothers for 3 months
prior to their confinements, and after discharge from hospital, with
their babies, until the infants are 3 months old. It has accommodation
for 10 mothers and 5 babies.
Hampstead and North St. Pancras Day Nursery.
This Day Nursery occupies commodious premises at 27 & 29,
Pond Street. There are 50 places in the Nursery for children under
5 years of age. The total number of attendances made during 1934
was 8,854. The Nursery is controlled by a Voluntary Committee
and the Borough Council contributes £543 per annum. By an
arrangement with this Voluntary Committee the Borough Council
rents a portion of the premises for the purpose of an Ante.natal
Clinic.
| Disease. | Number of cases notified duriug the year. | Number of caees visited by officers of the Council. | Number of cases for whom home nursing was provided by the Council. | Number of cases removed to hospitals. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 7 (In no case was the vision impaired) | 5 | 3 | 4 |
| Puerperal fever | 5 | 1 | — | 4 |
| Puerperal pyrexia | 18 | 9 | — | 18 |
| Measles (in children under 5 years of age) | 558 | 503 | 46 | 127 |
| Whooping Cough (do.) | Not notifiable | 106 | 1 | 16 |
| Poliomyelitis (do.) | 1 | 1 | — | 1 |