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Chelsea 1942
Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for Chelsea, 1942
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TABLE No. 5.
Births in Hospitals and Nursing Homes.
| Chelsea Births in Hospitals and Chelsea Births in Hospitals and Nursing Homes Within the Nursing Homes Outside the Borough. Borough. | ||||||||||
| LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL | 1939 | 1940 | 1941 | 1942 | 1939 | 1940 | 1941 | 1942 | ||
| LONDOM COUNTY COUNVIL | ||||||||||
| ST- lokes | 1 | - | 2 | - | ST.MARY ABBOTS | 165 | 129 | 51 | 99 | |
| ST. STEPAENS | 4 | - | 1 | - | OTHER HOSPITAL | 17 | 5 | 30 | 35 | |
| VOLUNTAEY HOSPITAL | Misellaneous hospital (inceliding ) | 58 | ||||||||
| CHELSEA HOSP:FOR WOMEN | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | Ineliding products | 93 | 60 | 80 | ||
| ROYAL CANCER | - | 1 | - | - | ||||||
| NURCING HOME | Nursing Hommemaa | 55 | 43 | 40 | 48 | |||||
| WILBAWAM PLACE | 4 | 4 | - | 5 | ||||||
| ROYAL ADECENCE | 1 | 1 | - | — | PRIVATE ADOROSSES | 18 | 27 | 20 | 15 | |
| 10 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 248 | 294 | 259 | 255 | |||
Percentage of Chelsea Births in Hospitals of
J and elsewhere outside Chelsea.
' 193964 nor cent.
194 0 69 ""
194 1 34 " "
1942*7784
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 141rths, including stillbirths, were notified as
occurring in Chelsea. Of this number, in 89 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 232irths, including stillbirths, amongst Chelsea mothers in Lying-in
hospitals and elsewhere outside the Borough.
The total number of notified Chelsea births from all sources was 3/4
The following table indicates the source of notification of the 141
births notified in the Borough :—
TABLE No. 6.
| Notification received from | Chelsea Residents. | Non-Residents. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Live Births. | Still Births. | Total. | Live Births. | Still Births. | Total. | |
| Medical Practitioners | 13 | 1 | 14 | 88 | 1 | 89 |
| Midwives | 67 | - | 67 | - | - | - |
| Poor Law Institutions | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Parents | 7 | - | 1 | - | - | - |
| 81 | 1 | 82 | 88 | 1 | 89 | |