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25 [1934
Contributions under arrangements for maternity cases admitted to beds at
Maternity Hospitals, the contributions being; a grant of 10s. per case, were : City
of London,Maternity Hospital, £69 10s. Od. ; Royal Free Hospital, £14 0s. 0d..
In addition to these, cases of Ophthalmia Neonatorum and Marasmus are admitted
to the London County Council's Hospital (St. Margaret's), Camden Town, N.W.
and Queen Mary's Hospital, Carshalton.
† Includes also nursing of pneumonia (adult).
SURVEY OF MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE SERVICES.
The Maternity and Child Welfare services in the Borough were comprised in a
survey made bv officers of the Ministry of Health during the year. A precis of the
matters reported on for the Council's consideration is given on page 83.
DEATHS IN PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS.
Within the Borough.—2,350 persons died in the Public Institutions
located in Islington, of whom 1,536 belonged to this Borough, the remaining 814
having come here for treatment or relief. Of this latter, 425 died in the Archway
Hospital, 200 in the Royal Northern Hospital, 44 in the London Fever Hospital,
08 in the St. Mary's Islington Hospital and Islington Institution, and 13 in the
Mildmay Hospital.
Of the 2,350 deaths of inhabitants, 1,058 occurred in the St. Mary's Islington
Hospital, 192 in the Islington Institution, 118 in the Royal Northern Hospital, and
131 in the Archway Hospital. The proportion which the 2,350 deaths in the Public
Institutions bore to the Borough mortality was 63.1 per cent.
Without the Borough.—1,293 deaths of persons belonging to Islington
were registered as occurring in Public Institutions in districts of London outside
the Borough and in various provincial towns. They included, among others,
28 in the North-Western Fever Hospital, 21 in the Children's Hospital, Great
Ormond Street, 64 in St. Bartholomew's Hospital, 16 in the Infirmary, Friern
Barnet, 48 in the Royal Free Hospital, 68 in the University College Hospital, 34
in the North-Eastern Hospital, 5 in the Eastern Fever Hospital, 35 in the
Middlesex Hospital, 7 in the City of London Maternity Hospital, 15 in the
Metropolitan Hospital, 11 at la, Manor Road, Ilford (Claybury), and 24 in Tooting
Bee Hospital.
These 1,293 deaths represented 34.7 per cent, of all the deaths registered in
the year.
Within and Without the Borough.—The deaths of Islingtonians
numbered 2,829, and were equal to 76.0 per cent, of the total deaths registered
during the year.
Fatal Accidents or Sudden Deaths outside the Borough.—
30 inhabitants died from accidental deaths, or suddenly, in places outside Islington.
During the previous year (1933) the total deaths in Local Institutions numbered
2,335, being 1,604 inhabitants of Islington in Local Institutions, plus 731
non-inhabitants of Islington in Local Institutions, the number in Islington
Hospital being 1,365, the number in the Royal Northern Hospital 108. The