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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 1920
Sixty-fifth annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Metropolitan Borough of Islington
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False Pregnancy 10
Left the neighbourhood before confinement 3
Number of Attendances 529
Home Visits 448
Number of Deaths—Infant 29
„ „ —(Over one year) 10
Infant Mortality (based on per 1,000 infants
under 1 year) 427
Record of Children.
Children on Books 31st March, 1920 970
New Children during the year 1,023
Children on Books 31st March, 1921 1,993
Ceased to attend since 31st March, 1920 394
In attendance 31st March. 1921 1,599
Analysis of Attendances.
Children under 1 year 679
Do. over 1 year 920
Weighing and Consultations 8,768
Weighings only 5,194
Milk for necessitous Mothers 428
West Islington Maternity and Child Welfare Centre.
No. of Expectant mothers on roll 119
Do. Attendances 365
Do. Consultations 47
Do. Ailing mothers on roll 295
Do. Attendances 900
Do. Consultations 51
Total visits—Expectant Mothers 303
Do. —Children 7,717
No, of Children on books 31st March, 1921 1,729
Do. —Attendances under 1 year 555
Do. do. over 1 year 499
No. of Consultations 232
Attendances at Weighings 4,146
Total attendances (Children) 11,364
No. of Deaths 21
Infant Mortality (based on per 1,000 infants
under 1 year) 37'8
Massage Attendances 570