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No, of Children on books 31st March 1920 843
Do. under 1 year 566
Do. over 1 year 277
No. of Consultations 4,922
Do. Weighings 2,711
Total attendances 7,633
No. of Deaths 21
Infant Mortality (based on per 1,000 infants
under 1 year) 37.1
East Islington Maternity and Child Welfare Centre.
Children under 1 year (attending Centred ) 324
Do. over 1 year „ „ 260
Mothers expectant 127
Consultations held 51
Total attendances 3,301
Home visits (by staff) 2,888
Do. (Voluntary) 43
Weighings only 940
Massage (attendances) 1,164
Deaths (under 1 year) 16
Do. (over 1 year) 3
Infant Mortality (based on per 1,000 infants
under 1 year 49.4
Milk for necessitous mothers 140
DEATHS IN PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS..
Within the Borough.—1,946 persons died in the Public Institutions
located in Islington, of whom 1,382 belonged to this borough, the remaining
564 having come here for treatment or relief. Of these, 377 died in the
Holborn Infirmary and 93 in the Great Northern Central Hospital.
Of the 1,382 deaths of inhabitants, 912 occurred in the Islington
Infirmary, 316 in the Islington Institution, and 124 in the Great Northern
Central Hospital. The proportion which the 1,382 deaths in these public
institutions bore to the borough mortality was 29.8 per cent.
Without the Borough.—702 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, 37 in the North-Western Fever Hospital, 52 in the Children's
Hospital, Great Ormond Street, 89 in St. Bartholomew's Hospital, 49 in
the Colney Hatch Asylum, 40 in the Royal Free Hospital, 41 in the