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Islington 1935

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Islington Borough]

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[1935

Table: Attendances, etc., at the various Departments of the Four Voluntary Centres, year ending March 31st, 1935.

Attendances, etc., at the various Departments of the Four Voluntary Centres, year ending March 31st, 1935.

North.South.East.West.Total.
1. Pre-Natal Clinics and Ailing Mother Clinics. Number held weekly42†l§18
„ of attendances2,818846674*2694,607
2. Consultations for Children up to 5 Years of Age. Number held weekly1011**11739
„ of attendances22,33719,55516,59111,31468,797
3. Home Visiting. No. of visits made16,31314,07110,8617,43448,679
4. Dental Clinics. Number attending61318011076979
„ of attendances or arrangements made for attendances1,889610__2,399
5. Morning Callers. Number of attendances1,236637‡-1,1092,982
6. Massage Clinics. No. of cases given massage or sent for massage7988 (& Sunlight treatment)10619292
7. Wards. Number of beds18-826
„ of patients received166——83249
8. Number of Children on Books1,9871,4681,1468915,492

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§ Birth Control Clinic takes the place of one Pre-natal Clinic on 2nd Tuesday in month.
† Extra Clinic held 2nd Thursday in month.
* Attendances of Expectant mothers only.
** Including 2 Observation Clinics.
‡ Not recorded.
NATIONAL SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO
CHILDREN.
The three local Inspectors of the Society have throughout the year co-operated
with my Department in dealing with cases coming within the objects of their work.
In 30 new cases their assistance was sought, one being through the receipt by the
Medical Officer of Health of an anonymous letter—the allegations proved to be
true—and two others were connected with the Infant Protection Work of the
Department. In addition, the Society's Inspectors kept close touch with 7 cases
that had been reported to them in former years and still needed supervision.
INFANT LIFE PROTECTION—CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS
ACTS—1908 to 1932.
In this work the aim of the Department is to increase the number of fostermothers
who would be willing to undertake the care of a child and thus reduce the
number of children cared for by the individual foster-mother, our experience being
that a child is more likely to get better attention where only one is in a household
rather than in those cases where three or four are under the care of one
foster-mother.
Both the numbers of foster-mothers and foster-children on the register at the
close of the year are slightly less than in the preceding year, but the number of
children actually dealt with by the Department showed an increase.