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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 £45 8 Of
Under Public Health £25 8 0
Total £70 16 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, £79 0s. Od. ; Royal Free Hospital, £17 0s. Od.
In addition to these cases of Ophthalmia Neonatorum and Marasmus are admitted
to the London County Council's Hospital (St. Margaret's), Camden Town, N.W.
and Queen Mary's Hospital, Carshalton.
† Includes also adult nursing (pneumonia).
DEATHS IN PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS.
Within the Borough.—2,447 persons died in the Public Institutions
located in Islington, of whom 1,618 belonged to this Borough, the remaining 829
having come here for treatment or relief. Of this latter, 458 died in the Archway
Hospital, 199 in the Royal Northern Central Hospital, 50 in the London Fever
Hospital, and 47 in the Islington Hospital and Islington Institution.
Of the 1,618 deaths of inhabitants, 1,117 occurred in the Islington Hospital,
249 in the Islington Institution, and 124 in the Royal Northern Central Hospital.
The proportion which the 1,618 deaths in the Public Institutions bore to the
Borough mortality was 40.3 per cent.
Without the Borough. — 946 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, 30 in the Children's Hospital, Great
Ormond Street, 76 in St. Bartholomew's Hospital, 27 in the Infirmary, Friern
Barnet, 61 in the Royal Free Hospital, 73 in the University College Hospital, 47
in the North-Eastern Fever Hospital, 8 in the Eastern Fever Hospital, 30 in the
Middlesex Hospital, 13 in the City of London Maternity Hospital, 22 in the
Metropolitan Hospital, and 26 at la, Manor Road, Ilford (Claybury).
These 946 deaths represented 23.6 per cent. of all the deaths registered in
the year.