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City of Westminster 1932
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, City of]
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There is an 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, 15; St. Stephen's, 28. 942 women from other
districts were confined in Westminster and 445 women belonging to
the City were delivered in the hospitals mentioned—the number in
St. Stephen's alone being 219.
The number of children born to Westminster parents in institutions
outside the City numbered 498.
The following table shows the number of confinements in the hospitals mentioned:—
Table VIII.
| Charing Cross Hospital: | 460, of which 60 were Westminster cases. |
| St. George's Hospital: | 228, of which 29 were Westminster cases. |
| Westminster Hospital: | 382, of which 142 were Westminster cases. |
| Sheffield St. Hospital: | 106. |
| St. Stephen's Hospital: | 219. |
Infant Clinics.—These are held at the following centres at the times
mentioned:—
Council's Centres—
Ebury Bridge—2 p.m. Wednesday. 2 p.m. Friday.
15, Bessborough Street—2 p.m. Thursday and 2 p.m. Tuesday
(combined with ante-natal clinic).
Marshall Street—2 p.m. Wednesday.
Westminster Health Society—
Marsham Street—2 p.m. Tuesday. 2 p.m. Friday.
Toddlers' Clinic—2nd Wednesday each month at 2.30 p.m.
Clinics are also held at the Infants Hospital, Vincent Square and
Charing Cross Hospital.
It will be noted from the following table of attendances that the
work at the centres continues satisfactorily, as shown by the average
attendance per session. The comparative totals since 1927 are also
shown on page 59.