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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
Willesden 1919
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Willesden]
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APPENDIX Q,
GRANTS IN AID.
I.—Maternity and Child Welfare (Local Government Board).
Summary of expenditure during the 12 months ended 31st March.
| 1916. | 1917. | 1918. | 1919. | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| £ | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. | |
| Inspectors of Midwives and Health Visitors— | ||||||||||||
| Salaries including War Pay | 167 | 8 | 10 | 447 | 8 | 3 | 987 | 3 | 8 | 1,281 | 4 | 8 |
| Allowances for Uniform | (Included with Salaries) | 19 | 13 | 9 | 70 | 18 | 0 | 174 | 16 | 4 | ||
| Travelling Expenses (Assistant Medical Officers & Health Visitors) | 8 | 12 | 6 | 19 | 12 | 7½ | 44 | 1 | 5 | 46 | 8 | 4½ |
| 486 | 14 | 7½ | 1,102 | 3 | 1 | 1,502 | 9 | 4½ | ||||
| Centres— | ||||||||||||
| Salaries of Medical Officers (including War Pay) | 55 | 8 | 2 | 410 | 4 | 1 | 681 | 2 | 8 | 3,044 | 3 | 7 |
| Rent, Rates and Taxes | 9 | 15 | 0 | 64 | 5 | 6 | 120 | 16 | 9 | 140 | 0 | 11½ |
| Furniture and Equipment | 0 | 15 | 3 | 155 | 13 | 11 | 195 | 16 | 8½ | 1,435 | 19 | 3½ |
| Heating, Lighting and Cleaning | 1 | 12 | 0 | 30 | 4 | 7 | 76 | 15 | 2½ | 430 | 5 | 10 |
| Drugs and other Medical requisites | 5 | 7 | 4 | 17 | 3 | 11 | 154 | 1 | 3 | 305 | 19 | 8 |
| Food—"Glaxo" | 129 | 6 | 10 | 227 | 16 | 4 | 1,914 | 4 | 8½ | 5,900 | 12 | 7 |
| "Virol" | 2 | 12 | 11 | 221 | 12 | 8 | ||||||
| Meals provided for Mothers and Children | - | - | - | - | - | - | 537 | 0 | 8 | 405 | 3 | 3 |
| Alteration and adaptation of Premises | - | - | - | 215 | 6 | 8 | 341 | 12 | 2 | 978 | 17 | 6½ |
| 1,123 | 7 | 11 | 4,021 | 10 | 1½ | 12,862 | 15 | 4¼ | ||||
| Creches— | ||||||||||||
| Salaries of Medical Officers | During the year 1917.18 certain expenditure was incurred in connection with a Day and Night Nursery established for the care of children of Munition workers, amounting to £955 1 4½ | |||||||||||
| Salaries of Matrons | ||||||||||||
| Salaries of Nurses and other paid | ||||||||||||
| officers | ||||||||||||
| Rents, Rates and Taxes | ||||||||||||
| Furniture and Equipment | ||||||||||||
| Heating, Lighting and Cleaning | ||||||||||||
| Food and Provisions | ||||||||||||
| Contribution to a Creche | ||||||||||||
| Provision of Midwives and Maternity Nurses for— | ||||||||||||
| Necessitous Women | - | - | - | 1 | 9 | 0 | 36 | 19 | 9 | 129 | 19 | 0 |
| Areas which are insufficiently supplied with this service | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Provision of Home Helps | - | - | - | 3 | 15 | 0 | 54 | 15 | 0 | 219 | 19 | 5 |
| Provision for Necessitous Women of a Doctor—for illness connected with Pregnancy and for aid in Confinement | - | - | - | - | - | - | 20 | 7 | 6 | 74 | 2 | 6 |
| Provision in Necessitous Cases of Home Nursing—for cases of Measles, Whooping Cough and Epidemic Diarrhoea in young children and cases of Ophthalmia Neonatorum and Puerperal Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Hospital Provision— | ||||||||||||
| Directly by the Council, Maintenance Expenses | 60 | 15 | 0 | (b)3,115 | 10 | 0 | (a)1,994 | 17 | 0* | |||
| (a)4,929 | 13 | 0 | ||||||||||
| 6,924 | 10 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Alteration and Adaptation of Premises at Municipal Hospital | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1,714 | 10 | 2 | 1,019 | 18 | 2* |
| Furniture and Equipment | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1,270 | 18 | 8½ | 377 | 6 | 0 |
| 2,985 | 8 | 10½ | 1,397 | 4 | 2 | |||||||