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Willesden 1931

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Willesden]

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Table: Table No. 1.

Table No. 1.

Year.No. of Confinement Cases Booked.
1918 (part-year)99Maternity Pavilion at Municipal Hospital opened.
1919267
1920444Restrictions began to be placed on bookings.
1921335
1922266Municipal Hospital Pavilion closed, 30th April, 1923. Cases sent to Park Royal Hospital.
1923140
192499
1925146
1926220
1927221
1928272
1929334
1930402
1931535Willesden Maternity Hospital opened, 14th February, 1931. Cases no longer sent to Park Royal Hospital.

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During 1931 440 women were admitted to the Willesden Maternity Hospital for confinement,
and 57 to the Central Middlesex County Hospital under the Council's scheme. In addition to these
497 an approximately equal number of Willesden mothers were confined in institutions outside
Willesden, 495 births of Willesden residents being notified from such outside institutions — 233
from Queen Charlotte's Hospital, 71 from Queen Mary's Maternity Home, Hampstead, and smaller
numbers from other hospitals; 52 from a nursing home and smaller numbers from other nursing
homes. These, together with some 200 in the Central Middlesex County Hospital, approximate
one-half of the births belonging to Willesden and show the desire of the present-day mother for
institutional confinement.

Table: Table No. 2.—Maternity Cases Admitted to the Central Middlesex County Hospital during 1931 up to 14th February, 1931.

Table No. 2.—Maternity Cases Admitted to the Central Middlesex County Hospital during 1931 up to 14th February, 1931.

No. delivered of live infants53
No. delivered of infants born dead3
No. confined56
No. of miscarriages0
No. of cases of complications caused by pregnancy2
Total No. of cases admitted to Hospital58

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Note.—2 cases were admitted not in labour and both of these were subsequently readmitted
and confined.
The Willesden Maternity Hospital was opened on February 14th, 1931, after which date the
Council discontinued sending their cases to the Central Middlesex County Hospital.
A report on the Willesden Maternity Hospital by Mr. Arnold Walker, the obstetrician, appears
later on in this report.

Table: Hospital Treatment of Children under 5 Years of Age.—The following table gives particulars of the children under treatment at the Willesden General Hospital and St. Monica's Home Hospital under the Council's scheme during 1931: —Table No. 3.

Hospital Treatment of Children under 5 Years of Age.—The following table gives particulars of the children under treatment at the Willesden General Hospital and St. Monica's Home Hospital under the Council's scheme during 1931: —

Table No. 3.

Willesden General Hospital.St. Monica's Home Hospital.Total.
No. of Children in Hospital at 31st December, 1930235
No. of Children admitted during 193115821179
Total No. of Children under treatment during 193116024184
No. of Children discharged during 193115411165
No. of Children died in Hospital during 1931167
Mortality %6225.03.80
No. of Children remaining in Hospital at 31st Dec., 19315712