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Amount off grant:
East Islington Mothers' & Babies' Welfare Centre, 32, Drayton Park, N.5, £ 2,345
West Islington Infant Welfare Centre 42, Richmond Avenue, N.I, £ 2,127
Home Visiting:
It is not possible to give such a detailed analysis of Home Visiting
during 1945 as in previous years, owing to the different methods of analyses
of visists dona employed for the Council's Visitors and the Visitors of each
of the four Voluntary Welfare Centres.
Comparative figures will not, therefore, be available for 1945, but the
following abbreviated statement is set out:-
To expectant mothers - First visits 2,261
Total visits 4,838
To children under 1 year - First visits 3,488
Total visits l6,777
To children between 1 and
5 years - Total visits 28,809
Child Life Protection:
Number of' persons on register prepared to receive
children at end of 1945 27
Number of children being cared for at end of year 38
STUDENT HEALTH VISITORS:
At the request, of the Royal College of Nursing two students attended
during 1945 in this borough as part of their practical training in home
visiting and in welfara centre clinic duties
PREMATURE BABIES:
In accordance with Ministry of Health Circular No. 20/44, special
records were kept regarding premature births, from which the following figures
are taken
(i) Total number of prematura births notified during 1945 which occurred:-
(a) at home 59 (plus 4 still - births);
(b) in hospital 175 (plus 18 still-births):
(ii) Number of babies born at home:—
(a) who were nursed entirely at home 50
(b) who died during 1st 24 hours 6
(c) who survived at end of one month 51
(iii) Number of babies bom in hospital:-
(a) who died during first 24 hours 28
(b) who survived at end of 1st month 125 (5 cases could not be
traced at end of month.)
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