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City of Westminster 1923

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, City of]

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The midwives at the Rochester Row Centre attend there once a week
to interview expectant mothers.
The midwives at the Greek Street Centre attend the classes at
Charing Cross Hospital.
Middlesx Hospital sends a midwife and maternity nurse from the
hospital to its out·patient cases.
A maternity ward with 11 beds has been opened in St. George's
Hospital, in which 41 of the confinements which took place during the
year, were Westminster cases. Similar wards are being formed in
Charing Cross and Westminster Hospitals with 14 and 4 beds
respectively.
Other hospitals to which women were chiefly admitted for confinement
were Queen Charlotte's, 76; St. Thomas, 57; General Lying·in
Hospital, 56; 41, Jeffrey's Road, Stockwell, 46; Middlesex, 26; 21,
Endsleigh Street, 12; and the Westminster Infirmary, 134.
Puerperal Fever and Mortality in Childbirth.—Three cases of puerperal
fever occurred with no death. In one the confinement took place in
hospital.
Four deaths occurred from complications connected with pregnancy,
one due to ectopic gestation, two to nephritis and one to tumour.

Table: Infancy and Early Childhood.—The number of visits paid by the Health Visitors in the four areas into which the City was divided, is shown in the accompanying table :—

Infancy and Early Childhood.—The number of visits paid by the Health Visitors in the four areas into which the City was divided, is shown in the accompanying table :—

Pimlico.Bessborough Street.Rochester Row.Greek Street.Total.Total
Staff.Vol.Staff.Vol.Staff.Vol.Staff.Vol.Staff.Vol.
Pre·natal—
First visits126711228244201556647105752
Other visits872111133439824299188972871,184
Children under 1 year of age—
First visits3411412811445314300341,3752031,578
Other visits1,7369838001679665181,0264374,5282,1056,633
Children over 1 and under 5 years— Visits2,1111,1191,1214731,1141,3291,0278705,3733,7919,164
4,4012,5252,4376963,1751,9052,8071,36512,8206,49119,311
6,9263,1335,0804,17219,311

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To the Pimlico and Bessborough Street figures have to be added visits paid by the midwife,
viz., first pre·natal 358, subsequent 527; children under 1, 215; and in the Greek Street area 243
pre·natal visits.
The visits paid by the midwives of the Health Society in the Rochester Row area are
included under their respective headings.
In addition to the above, 45 visits were paid in cases of still·births and miscarriage and 75
in connection with enquiries regarding the deaths of young children.