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Willesden 1935

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Willesden]

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from other hospitals; 73 from a nursing home and smaller numbers from other nursing homes. These,
together with some 330 in the Central Middlesex County Hospital, are approximately 60 per cent.
of the births belonging to Willesden and show the desire of the present-day mother for institutional
confinement.
A report on the Willesden Maternity Hospital by Mr. Arnold Walker, F.R.C.S., the Council's
Consultant Obstetrician, appears later on in this report.
Ante-Natal Work for Institutions not under the Council.—Requests are received
from the Middlesex County Council and from various London Hospitals for home visits to expectant
mothers, and special reports by the Council's Health Visitors in connection with women who are to
be confined in these Hospitals.
134 such reports were supplied to London Hospitals and 41 to the Middlesex County Council
during the year.

Table: Hospital Treatment of Children under 5 Years of Age Excluding OrthopÆdic Treatment which is Dealt with in Appendix F.—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 and at other hospitals during 1935:—Table No . 5.

Hospital Treatment of Children under 5 Years of Age Excluding OrthopÆdic Treatment which is Dealt with in Appendix F.—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 and at other hospitals during 1935:—

Table No . 5.

Willesden General Hospital.St. Monica's Home Hospital.Children's Hospital Cold Ash.Streatham Babies' Hospital.Total.
No. of Children in Hospital at 31st
December, 193412104
No. of children admitted during 19351202111143
Total number of Children under treatment during 19351212321147
No. of Children discharged during 19351171121131
No. of Children died in Hospital during 193527009
Mortality %1.6530.43006.12
No. of Children remaining in Hospital at 31st December, 193525007

Table: The following table gives particulars of the conditions for which children were treated during 1935, the treatment carried out and the results of such treatment:—Table No. 6.—children under 5 Years under Treatment in Hospital during 1935.

The following table gives particulars of the conditions for which children were treated during 1935, the treatment carried out and the results of such treatment:—

Table No. 6.—children under 5 Years under Treatment in Hospital during 1935.

Condition.Brought forward.Admitted during Year.Total under Treatment.Treatment Completed.In Hospital at end of Year.
Forms of Treatment Results of Treatment.
Operative.General.Other Forms.Remedied.Improved or Unchanged.Died.
Marasmus43438—31—61697
Enlarged Tonsils and Adenoids0109109109——109——0
Total414314710931—1151697

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Puerperal Fever.—During 1935, 3 cases of Puerperal Fever were notified as against 9 in
1934, 13 in 1933, 8 in 1932, 14 in 1931 and 5 in 1930. This gives a case rate of 1.1 per thousand
registered live births, as against 3.3 in 1934, 4.9 in 1933, 2.9 in 1932, 4.9 in 1931, 1.7 in 1930.
The figure per 1,000 registered total births is 1.0 for 1935 against 3.2 for 1934 and 4.7 for 1933.
Of the 3 notified cases 1 proved fatal. Four deaths appear in the death table under puerperal
sepsis. 1 was the above case of puerperal fever, 2 were notified as puerperal pyrexia and 1 was not
notified at all.