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City of Westminster 1927

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

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Table: Table V. Attendances by midwife at ante-natal and other clinics:—

Table V. Attendances by midwife at ante-natal and other clinics:—

192219231924192519261927
1, Pimlico Road417240544339
15, Bessborough Street736283758782
Total114134123129130121

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The Westminster Health Society provide midwifery services in St.
Margaret and St. John Wards, the western boundary being Vauxhall
Bridge Road. The following table gives figures relating to the work
performed in this area during the year:—

Table: Table VI. Number of cases attended—

Table VI. Number of cases attended—

St. Margaret and St. John Wards.
As midwife46
With hospital students10
With private doctors6
62
Midwifery visits868
Nursing visits95
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As mentioned earlier in the report, there is a greatly increasing tendency
for women from other districts to come into Westminster institutions for
their confinements. The hospital beds available are as follows:—Charing
Cross, 15; St. George's, 11; Westminster, 4; St. Stephen's, 28. Five
hundred and thirty-two women from other districts were confined in
Westminster and 540 women belonging to the City were delivered in the
hospitals mentioned—the number in St. Stephen's alone being 203.
The number of children born to Westminster parents in institutions
outside the City numbered 576.
The following table shows the number of confinements in the hospitals
mentioned:—
Table VII.
Charing Cross Hospital: 196, of which 50 were Westminster cases.
St. George's Hospital: 229, of which 41 were Westminster cases.
Westminster Hospital: 110, of which 46 were Westminster cases.
St. Stephen's Hospital: 203. Sheffield St. Hospital: 36.
Infancy and Early Childhood.—At the centres in the City weekly
clinics are held for the purpose of giving medical advice.
The following figures give an approximate number of the births in
the four areas divided for the purposes of maternity and child
welfare