Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Willesden]
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The following table shows the total attendances of Expectant and Nursing Mothers and Children under 5 years of age at the Municipal Health Centres since 1938:—
Table No. 5.
Health Centre Attendances. | ||
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Total attendances of Expectant and Nursing Mothers and Children under 5 years of age. | Attendances of Expectant Mothers at Ante-Natal Clinics only. | |
1938 (3 Health Centres open) | 158,893 | 15,351 |
1939 (3 Health Centres open 8 months, 2 Health Centres open 4 months) | 153,810 | 14,305 |
1940 (2 Health Centres open) | 127,781 | 15,335 |
1941 (2 Health Centres open) | 113,863 | 13,949 |
1912 (2 Health Centres open 10J months, 3 Health Centres open 11 months) .. | 138,189 | 19,157 |
1943 (3 Health Centres open) | 146,071 | 18,142 |
1944 (3 Health Centres open) | 117,731 | 16,680 |
1945 (3 Health Centres open) | 119,429 | 16,586 |
1946 (3 Health Centres open) | 140,740 | 23,644 |
1947 (3 Health Centres open) | 145,819* | 21,305 |
Princess Road. Voluntary Centre.—The Council took over the Princess Road Voluntary Infant Welfare Centre
in Kilburn as from 1st April, 1942.
MATERNITY HOSPITAL.
Bookings.—1,078 patients were booked during 1947 for confinement in the Willesden Maternity Hospital.
The fees at which these 1,078 cases were booked varied from 31 at £15 to 100 free. The average fee per case was
approximately £& 0s. 3d.
During 1947, 363 applicants for confinement in the Willesden Maternity Hospital were unable to be booked
for the reasons set out below :—
Table No . 6.—A pplications for Booking Refused.
No beds available | 219 |
Not resident in Willesden | — |
Satisfactory social circumstances | 114 |
363 |
Hospital Confinements.—During 1947, 1,246 women were confined in the Willesden Maternity Hospital.
510 births of Willesden residents were notified from outside Institutions—52 from St. Mary's Hospital, 86 from Queen
Charlotte's Hospital, 29 from Middlesex Hospital, 25 from University College Hospital, 40 from Queen Mary's
Maternity Home, and smaller numbers from other hospitals, 108 from a Nursing Home, and smaller numbers from
other Nursing and Maternity Homes. These, together with some 731 in the Central Middlesex County Hospital,
are approximately 65 per cent, of the births belonging to Willesden.
It is to be noted that in 1947 many mothers desiring institutional confinement were unable to obtain beds.
363 applicants for the Willesden Maternity Hospital alone had to be refused.
The following table shows the domiciliary and institutional confinements :—
Table No . 7.
Years. | Domiciliary Births attended by Midwives. | Domiciliary Births attended by Doctors. | Births in Hospitals and Nursing Homes. | Total Births notified. (Note—Notified not registered.) |
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1931 | 515 | 1,174 | 1,110 | 2,799 |
1932 | 457 | 997 | 1,220 | 2,674 |
1933 | 532 | 776 | 1,357 | 2,665 |
1934 | 610 | 680 | 1,436 | 2,726 |
1935 | 589 | 568 | 1,706 | 2,863 |
1936 | 646 | 516 | 1,745 | 2,907 |
1937 | 760 | 465 | 1,906 | 3,131 |
1938 | 710 | 394 | 1,974 | 3,078 |
1939 | 703 | 257 | 1,789 | 2,749 |
1940 | 521 | 129 | 1,610 | 2,290 |
1941 | 340 | 112 | 1,317 | 1,769 |
1942 | 663 | 163 | 1,788 | 2,614 |
1943 | 634 | 189 | 1,871 | 2,694 |
1944 | 653 | 166 | 1,905 | 2,724 |
1945 | 524 | 130 | 2,010 | 2,664 |
1946 | 878 | 183 | 2,349 | 3,410 |
1947 | 911 | 192 | 2,504 | 3,607 |