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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
Islington 1918
Sixty-third annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Metropolitan Borough of Islington
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[1918
WORK PERFORMED BY THE VOLUNTARY MATERNITY AND
CHILD WELFARE CENTRES:—
North Islington Maternity and Child Welfare Centre.
Number of Expectant Mothers 176
„ Attendances 489
„ Consultations held 48
Number of Babies attending (all ages) 1,009
„ „ (under 1 year) 760
„ Attendances 6,400
„ Consultations held 290
Number of Attendances of Morning Callers 1,043
Number of Sewing Classes 72
„ Attendances 592
Number of Health Talks 69
„ Attendances 1,306
Number of Visits—Professional 4,094
„ „ —Voluntary 718
Number of Deaths—Infant 18
„ „ —Other 17
Infant Mortality (based on per 1,000 infants
under 1 year) 23.7
Milk for necessitous Mothers 101
South Islington Maternity and Child Welfare Centre.
Ante-Natal Cases.
Number of Mothers 77
Full Term Births 41
Premature Births 2
Still Births 1
Miscarriages 5
Not yet confined 22
False Pregnancy 1
Left the neighbourhood before confinement 3
Number of Attendances 179
Referred to Hospital for Treatment 3
Home Visits 160
Post-Natal Cases.
Number of Mothers 89
Number of Attendances 190
Referred to Hospitals—
Medical 10
Surgical 8