London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

View report page

Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Islington 1917

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

This page requires JavaScript

Text

Copy text to clipboard

1917] 8

Table: Record of Children.

Record of Children.

Children on Books 31st March, 1917759
New Children during the year525
Children on Books 31st March, 19181,281
Ceased to attend before 31st March, 1917158
„ „ since ,,373
531
In attendance at the present time753
Analysis of Attendances.
Children under 1 year427
Do. over 1 year380
Weighing and Consultations5,118
Weighings only1,147

Table: West Islington Maternity and Child Welfare Centre.Patients.

West Islington Maternity and Child Welfare Centre.

Patients.

Children under 1 year341
Do. over 1 year382
Mothers, nursing99
Do., expectant37
Consultations138
New Patients600
Attendances of Patients4,513
Home Visits, Supt.1,700
Do. Assist.3,555
Do. Voluntary77
Weighings only1,412
Dressings, etc.736
Massage551

Text

Copy text to clipboard

DEATHS IN PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS.
Within the Borough.—2,145 persons died in the Public Institutions
located in Islington, of whom only 1,383 belonged to this borough, the
remaining 762 having come here for treatment or relief. Among the latter
were 560 persons who died in the Holborn Infirmary and 83 who died in the
Great Northern Central Hospital.
Of the 1,383 deaths of inhabitants, 952 occurred in the Islington
Infirmary, 296 in the Islington Workhouses, and 93 in the Great Northern
Central Hospital. The proportion which the 1,383 deaths in these public
institutions bore to the borough mortality was 30.1 per cent.