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ANTE-NATAL WORK.
The Ante-Natal Clinics provided by the Council are under the
control and supervision of a Consultant Gynaecologist (Miss Alice
Bloomfield, m.d., f.r.c.s.), who attends the central clinic held
at the Borough Maternity Hospital on Tuesdays and Wednesdays,
and at the Southlands Centre on Friday. There are subsidiary
clinics at the Plough Road and East Battersea Centres which are
attended by the Assistant Medical Officer of Health (M. & C.W.),
and the Women's League of Service also hold a clinic at their
Southlands premises (vide p. 38). Each mother who books for the
Borough Maternity Hospital or the District Midwifery Service is
required to attend the Ante-Natal clinic monthly before her confinement,
and is seen at least once by the Consultant Gynaecologist.
Cases are also referred by private medical practitioners to the
Clinics, and reports are furnished to them.
Miss Alice Bloomfield, M.D., F.R.C.S., Consultant-in-charge of
the Ante-Natal Clinics, reports:—
Tuesday Afternoon ("Special") Clinic.—In all the total
attendances at this Clinic numbered 763, including 702 new cases.
Blood for the Wasserman reaction was taken in 700 instances,
giving a positive reaction in only 5 cases or .7 per cent. Other
types of case attending the clinic are shown in the following table,
and numbered 35 :—
35 cases. { 15 required no treatment; 10 cases
{were treated, in 9 of which a film
25 cases of , {examination was made, and in 4 cases
vaginal { of severe discharge in pregnancy, daily
discharge {vaginal douching was ordered for a
time.
10 " other cases," e.g. prolapse, for diagnosis of pregnancy
or gynaecological disorder.
It is also after the Tuesday afternoon clinic that the various
examinations under anaesthesia—e.g. for version—are carried out.
These numbered 11 in 1930 (see later).
Wednesday and Thursday Morning Clinics.—The total attendances
at these Clinics numbered 2,128, or an average attendance of
20-5 patients per clinic. Total new patients numbered 434 or 4.2
per clinic.
Booking date with reference to period of pregnancy :—
Before or up to the 3rd month 301 patients.
„ 6th „ 127 „
After the 8th „ 6 „