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[1918
East Islington Maternity and Child Welfare Centre.
Children under 1 year 190
Do. over 1 year 65
Mothers, nursing 21
Do. expectant 26
Consultations held 50
Total attendances 1,296
Home visits (Supt.) 1,895
Do. (Voluntary) 30
Weighings only 173
Massage 232
Deaths
Infant Mortality (based on per 1,000 infants
under 1 year) 42.1
Milk for necessitous mothers 23
DEATHS IN PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS.
Within the Borough.—2,521 persons died in the Public Institutions
located in Islington, of whom only 1,728 belonged to this borough, the
remaining 793 having come here for treatment or relief. Of these 592
died in the Holborn Infirmary and 94 died in the Great Northern Central
Hospital.
Of the 1,728 deaths of inhabitants, 1,196 occurred in the Islington
Infirmary, 364 in the Islington Workhouses, and 110 in the Great Northern
Central Hospital. The proportion which the 1,728 deaths in these public
institutions bore to the borough mortality was 29.6 per ccnt.
Without the Borough.—865 deaths of persons belonging to Islington
were registered as occurring in Public Institutions in districts of London
outside the borough and in various provincial towns. They included, among
others, 35 in the North-Western Fever Hospital, 47 in the Children's
Hospital, Great Ormond Street, 81 in St. Bartholomew's Hospital, 53 in
the Colney Hatch Asylum, 41 in the Royal Free Hospital, 33 in the
University College Hospital, 24 in the North-Eastern Fever Hospital, 37
in the Leavesden Asylum, and 76 in the Claybury Asylum.
These 865 deaths represented 14.8 per cent. of all the deaths registered
in the year.
Within and Without the Borough.—The deaths of Islingtonians
numbered 2,593, and were equal to 44.4 per cent. of the total deaths registered
during the year.