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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 1919
Sixty-fourth annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Metropolitan Borough of Islington
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South Islington Maternity and Child Welfare Centre.
Ante-Natal Cases.
Number of Mothers - 164
Full Term Births 91
Premature Births 2
Still Births 3
Miscarriages —
Not yet confined 52
False Pregnancy 7
Left the neighbourhood before confinement 5
Number of Attendances 453
Home Visits 194
Post-Natal Cases.
Number of Mothers 108
Number of Attendances 127
Number of Deaths—Infant 22
„ —Other —
Infant Mortality (based on per 1,000 infants
under 1 year) 382
Record of Children.
Children on Books 31st March, 1919 575
New Children during the year 654
Children on Books 31st March, 1920 1,229
Ceased to attend since 31st March, 1919 259
In attendance at the present time 970
Analysis of Attendances.
Children under 1 year 576
Do. over 1 year 394
Weighing and Consultations 5,217
Weighings only 1,910
Milk for necessitous Mothers 249
West Islington Maternity and Child Welfare Centre.
No. of Expectant mothers 73
Do. Attendances 344
Do. Consultations 51
Do. Ailing mothers on roll 137
Do. Attendances 584
Total visits 5,936
Expectant mothers 198
Children 5,738