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Islington 1927
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Islington Borough]
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21 1927
MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE.
Contributions by the Borough Council.
| Voluntary | Welfare Centres. £. | Day Nurseries. | £. |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Centre | 2,155 | Lower Holloway | 80* |
| South Centre | 837 | St. Luke's | 40 |
| East Centre | 766 | South Islington | 100 |
| West Centre | 1,042 | Total | £220 |
| Total | £4,800 | * This Nursery is a municipally owned building. (No rent charged for its use.) | |
A contribution of £25 was made to the Islington Branch of the Invalid
Children's Aid Association in respect of convalescence of invalid children under
five years of age.
Contributions for Maternity and Child Welfare Work per Case in Respect
of Work Done.
The Islington Borough Council has an arrangement with the North London
Nursing Association for the attendance, by visitation, in cases of Ophthalmia
Neonatorum, Acute Primary Pneumonia, Acute Influenzal Pneumonia, Measles,
Whooping Cough and Epidemic Diarrhoea. The payments made to this Association,
at the rate of one shilling per visit, were :—
Under Maternity and Child Welfare... £105 9 0
Under Public Health £68 2 0*
Total £173 11 0
* Includes also adult nursing (pneumonia).
Contributions under arrangements for maternity cases admitted to beds at
Maternity Hospitals, the contribution being a grant of 10s. per case, were : City
of London Maternity Hospital, £2 10s. 0d. ; Royal Free Hospital, £16 10s. 0d.
In addition to these cases of Ophthalmia Neonatorum and Marasmus are
admitted to the Metropolitan Asylums Board's Hospital (St. Margaret's), Camden
Town, N.W.
DEATHS IN PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS.
Within the Borough.—2,081 persons died in the Public Institutions
located in Islington, of whom 1,385 belonged to this Borough, the remaining 696
having come here for treatment or relief. Of these, 436 died in the Archway
House, 123 in the Royal Northern Central Hospital and 61 in the London Fever
Hospital.
Of the 1,385 deaths of inhabitants, 1,004 occurred in the Islington Infirmary,
224 in the Islington Institution, and 124 in the Royal Northern Central Hospital.
The proportion which the 1,385 deaths in the Public Institutions bore to the
Borough mortality was 33.6 per cent.
Without the Borough.—821 deaths of persons belonging to Islington
were registered as occurring in Public Institutions in district of London outside
the Borough and in various provincal towns. They included, among others,
32 in the North-Western Fever Hospital, 36 in the Children's Hospital, Great
Ormond Street, 101 in St. Bartholomew's Hospital, 38 in the Colney Hatch
Mental Hospital, 68 in the Royal Free Hospital, 57 in the University College