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Islington 1929
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Islington Borough]
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1929]
| Voluntary Welfare Centres. | Day Nurseries. | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| North Centre | 2,155 | Lower Holloway | 80 |
| South Centre | 837 | St. Luke's | 40 |
| East Centre | 766 | South Islington | 100 |
| West Centre | 1,042 | ||
| Total | £220 | ||
| Total | £4,800 | ||
* This Nursery is a municipally
owned building. No rent
charged for its use).
A contribution of £25 was made to the Islington Branch of the Invalid
Children's Aid Association in respect of convalescence of invalid children under
five years of age.
Contributions for Maternity and Child Welfare Work per Case in Respect
of Work Done.
The Islington Borough Council has an arrangement with the North London
Nursing Association for the attendance, by visitation, in cases of Ophthalmia
Neonatorum, Acute Primary Pneumonia, Acute Influenzal Pneumonia, Measles,
Whooping Cough and Epidemic Diarrhoea. The payments made to this Association,
at the rate of one shilling per visit, were :—
Under Maternity and Child Welfare £67 9 0
Under Public Health £35 18 0*
Total £107 17 0
Contributions under arrangements for maternity cases admitted to beds at
Maternity Hospitals, the contributions being a grant of 10s. per case, were : City
of London Maternity Hospital, £2 0s. 0d. ; Royal Free Hospital, £17 10s. 0d.
In addition to these cases of Ophthalmia Neonatorum and Marasmus are admitted
to the Metropolitan Asylums Board's Hospital (St. Margaret's), Camden Town,
N.W.
* Includes also adult nursing (pneumonia).
DEATHS IN PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS.
Within the Borough.—2,535 persons died in the Public Institutions
located in Islington, of whom 1,739 belonged to this Borough, the remaining 796
having come here for treatment or relief. Of these, 484 died in the Archway
House, 150 in the Royal Northern Central Hospital, 79 in the London Fever
Hospital, and 24 in the Islington Institution and Islington Infirmary.
Of the 1,739 deaths of inhabitants, 1,269 occurred in the Islington Infirmary,
300 in the Islington Institution, and 118 in the Royal Northern Central Hospital.
The proportion which the 1,739 deaths in the Public Institutions bore to the
Borough mortality was 36.6 per cent.
Without the Borough.—938 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,
31 in the North-Western Fever Hospital, 34 in the Children's Hospital, Great
Ormond Street, 67 in St. Bartholomew's Hospital, 19 in the Colney Hatch