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Willesden 1936
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Willesden]
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62
THE SEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT
for the
Year ending 31st December, 1936,
on the
SUPERVISION OF MIDWIVES.
Table No. 46.
Number of Midwives who gave notice of their Intention to practise in Willesden in 1935 and 1936 respectively.
| 1935 | 1936 | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Private District Midwives | 15 | 13 |
| 2. Queen Charlotte's Distict Home, 40, Princess Road, Kilburn, N.W.6. | 6 | 8 |
| 3. Central Middlesex County Hospital | 12 | 14 |
| 1. Private District Midwives | 12 | 13 |
| 2. Queen Charlotte's District Home, 176, Ladbroke Grove, Kensington | 4 | 6 |
| 3. Kilburn and West Hampstead District Nursing Association, 20, Dennington Park Road, Hampstead, N.W.6 | 5 | 7 |
| Total | 54 | 61 |
Table No. 47.
Number of Cases attended by Midwives practising and living in Willesden during 1936.
| Private District Midwives. | No. of Cases attended Total. | Remarks. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| As Midwife. | As Maternity Nurse. | ||
| 1 | 20 | 2 | - |
| 2 | 127 | 34 | - |
| 3 | 43 | 8 | - |
| 4 | 9 | 5 | -- |
| 5 | 12 | 1 | - |
| 6 | 38 | 4 | - |
| 7 | 31 | 1 | - |
| 8 | 44 | 7 | - |
| 9 | 22 | 9 | - |
| 10 | 2 | 0 | - |
| 11 | 0 | 0 | - |
| 12 | 0 | 2 | - |
| 13 | 1 | 1 | - |
| Midwives attached to Willesden | - | ||
| District Nursing Association, 17 | - | ||
| and 19, Park Avenue, N.W.2 | 0 | 179 | - |
| Midwives attached to Queen Char | |||
| lotte's Hospital District Home, | - | ||
| 40, Princess Road, N.W.6 ... | 263 | 0 | - |
| Midwives at the Central Middlesex | - | ||
| County Hospital, Acton Lane, | - | ||
| N.W.10 | *730 | *40 | *These 770 patients were all confined in the Central Middlesex County Hospital. |
| Total | 1,342 | 293 | |
| = 1,635 in all. | |||
From Table No. 47 it will be observed that Midwives practising and living in Willesden
attended 1,342 cases as Midwives and 293 cases as Maternity Nurses or 1,635 in all. These cases
were not all Willesden cases and were not all attended in Willesden.
Apart from institutions or associations, the largest number of midwifery cases any single one
of these Midwives attended as a Midwife was 127, and the largest total of cases any single one of these
Midwives attended was 161, being 127 cases attended as Midwife and 34 as Maternity Nurse.