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Willesden 1947

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Willesden]

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The following table shows the total attendances of Expectant and Nursing Mothers and Children under 5 years of age at the Municipal Health Centres since 1938:—

Table No. 5.

Health Centre Attendances.
Total attendances of Expectant and Nursing Mothers and Children under 5 years of age.Attendances of Expectant Mothers at Ante-Natal Clinics only.
1938 (3 Health Centres open)158,89315,351
1939 (3 Health Centres open 8 months, 2 Health Centres open 4 months)153,81014,305
1940 (2 Health Centres open)127,78115,335
1941 (2 Health Centres open)113,86313,949
1912 (2 Health Centres open 10J months, 3 Health Centres open 11 months) ..138,18919,157
1943 (3 Health Centres open)146,07118,142
1944 (3 Health Centres open)117,73116,680
1945 (3 Health Centres open)119,42916,586
1946 (3 Health Centres open)140,74023,644
1947 (3 Health Centres open)145,819*21,305
•Includes attendances at Princess Road Infant Welfare Centre.

Princess Road. Voluntary Centre.—The Council took over the Princess Road Voluntary Infant Welfare Centre
in Kilburn as from 1st April, 1942.
MATERNITY HOSPITAL.
Bookings.—1,078 patients were booked during 1947 for confinement in the Willesden Maternity Hospital.
The fees at which these 1,078 cases were booked varied from 31 at £15 to 100 free. The average fee per case was
approximately £& 0s. 3d.
During 1947, 363 applicants for confinement in the Willesden Maternity Hospital were unable to be booked
for the reasons set out below :—

Table No . 6.—A pplications for Booking Refused.

No beds available219
Not resident in Willesden
Satisfactory social circumstances114
363

Hospital Confinements.—During 1947, 1,246 women were confined in the Willesden Maternity Hospital.
510 births of Willesden residents were notified from outside Institutions—52 from St. Mary's Hospital, 86 from Queen
Charlotte's Hospital, 29 from Middlesex Hospital, 25 from University College Hospital, 40 from Queen Mary's
Maternity Home, and smaller numbers from other hospitals, 108 from a Nursing Home, and smaller numbers from
other Nursing and Maternity Homes. These, together with some 731 in the Central Middlesex County Hospital,
are approximately 65 per cent, of the births belonging to Willesden.
It is to be noted that in 1947 many mothers desiring institutional confinement were unable to obtain beds.
363 applicants for the Willesden Maternity Hospital alone had to be refused.
The following table shows the domiciliary and institutional confinements :—

Table No . 7.

Years.Domiciliary Births attended by Midwives.Domiciliary Births attended by Doctors.Births in Hospitals and Nursing Homes.Total Births notified. (Note—Notified not registered.)
19315151,1741,1102,799
19324579971,2202,674
19335327761,3572,665
19346106801,4362,726
19355895681,7062,863
19366465161,7452,907
19377604651,9063,131
19387103941,9743,078
19397032571,7892,749
19405211291,6102,290
19413401121,3171,769
19426631631,7882,614
19436341891,8712,694
19446531661,9052,724
19455241302,0102,664
19468781832,3493,410
19479111922,5043,607