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HOSPITALS: PUBLIC AND VOLUNTARY.
Hospital accommodation being a matter with which the Borough Councils in
London have no direct concern, it is not considered necessary to make special reference
to it. St. Marylebone is fortunate in the number of voluntary hospitals and
dispensaries of various kinds that are situated within its boundaries, and to these
cases from the welfare centres are referred as and when necessary. Queen
Charlotte's and the Middlesex Hospitals are available for ante-natal and complicated
maternity cases.
MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE.
The following extract from a statement required by the Ministry of Health
showing the arrangements made by the Council and by Voluntary Associations
providing Maternity and Child Welfare services in respect of which the Council
pay contributions under Section 101 of the Local Government Act, 1929, or otherwise,
contains much useful information on the work of this section. Tables 20
(page 37) and 21 (page 38) give further particulars of the work done at the various
clinic centres during the year.
Statement Showing Arrangements Made for Maternity and Child Welfare.
Number of births notified in the area during the year under Section 255 of
the Public Health (London) Act, 1936, as adjusted by any transferred
notifications: (a) Live births, 897; (b) Still-births, 32; (c) Total, *929;
(d) By midwives, 212; (e) By doctors and parents, 94; (f) By hospitals, 331;
(g) By nursing homes, 74; (h) Inward transfers, 218.*
*The total of the figures given under (d), (e), (f), (g) and (h) agree with the
figure under (c).
Health Visiting.
(i) Number of officers employed for health visiting at the end of the
year: (a) by the Council, 8; (b) by voluntary associations, 2.
(ii) Equivalent of whole time services devoted by the whole staff to
health visiting (including attendance at infant welfare centres):
(a) in the case of health visitors employed by the Council, 6|; (b) in
the case of health visitors employed by voluntary associations, 2.
(iii) Number of visits paid during the year by all health visitors: (a) To
expectant mothers, first visits, †313; total visits, 622. (b) To children
under 1 year of age, first visits, †652; total visits, 5,277. (c) To
children between the ages of 1 and 5 years, total visits, 7,367.
†Excluding cases which are known to have previously been visited in another
district.
Infant Welfare Centres.
(a) Number of centres provided and maintained by the Council, four
(including a three year old pre-school clinic).
(b) Number of centres provided and maintained by voluntary
tions, 3.
(c) Total number of attendances at all centres during the year: (i) By
children under 1 year of age, 10,036 (7,298 St. Marylebone residents);
(ii) By children between the ages of 1 and 5 years, 9,331 (7,034 St.
Marylebone residents).
(d) Total number of children who attended at the centres for the first time
during the year and who, on the date of their first attendance,
were: (i) Under 1 year of age, *609 (437 St. Marylebone residents);
(ii) between the ages of 1 and 5 years, 267 (253 St. Marylebone
residents).
*Excluding children who are known to have previously attended a centre in
another district.