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Chelsea 1930

Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for Chelsea, 1930

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TABLE No. 5. Births in Hospitals and Nursing. Homes.

Chelsea Births in Hospitals and Nursing Homes Within the Borough.Chelsea Births in Hospitals and Nursing Homes Outside the Borough.
St. Luke's Hospital and Institution165St. George's Hospital36
St. Stephen's Hospital and In stitution5Queen Charlotte's Hospital25
Clapham Maternity Hospital8
Ormond Maternity Home22General Lying-in Hospital3
Wilbraham Nursing Home5Royal Free Hospital4
Chelsea Hospital for Women1Miscellaneous Hospitals31
Royal Avenue Nursing Home1Nursing Homes29
Total199Total136

From Table No. 4 it will be observed that the number of births of
Chelsea Infants in Hospitals and elsewhere outside Chelsea accounted
for 19*1 per cent, of the total births. In the preceding year the percentage
was 25.3.
NOTIFICATION OF BIRTHS ACT, 1907.
Under the above Act, all live and still births occurring after the 28th
week of pregnancy must be reported within 36 hours to the Medical
Officer of Health of the district in which the birth takes place. This
information is extremely valuable, as it enables the Health Visitor to
exercise supervision of the mother and child shortly after confinement.
During the year, 833 births were notified as occurring in Chelsea.
Of this number, in 221 instances the parents were resident in other
Boroughs, and information of such births was transmitted to the Medical
Officer of Health concerned. Information was received of 153 births
amongst Chelsea mothers in Lying-in hospitals and elsewhere outside
the Borough.
The total number of notified Chelsea births from all sources was 765.

TABLE No. 6.

Notification received from.chelsea residents.Non- Residents.
Live Births.Still Births.Total.Live Births.Still Births.Total.
Medical Practitioners14121435555
Midwives26232656262
Poor Law Institutions18071871003103
Parents171711
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