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(b) Total number of expectant mothers who attended at the
Ante-natal Clinics during the year—454.
(c) Percentage of total notified births (live and still) represented
by the number in (b)—43 per cent.
In addition, 40 mothers attended for the first time, after their
confinements, to receive post-natal care.
The following is the report for the year 1934 of the Medical
Officer of the Council's Ante-natal Clinics, Miss Mary Kidd, M.B.,
B.S. (L,ond.) :—
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors
op the Metropolitan Borough op Hampstead.
Mr. Mayor, Ladies and Gentlemen,

That many of the expectant mothers of the Borough are continuing
to avail themselves of the Ante-natal Care provided by the Council is
shown by the figures of the above table. It will be noticed, indeed,
that the average attendance per session has risen at each of the
Clinics. Considerably over a third of the Hampstead women who had
children in 1934 received ante-natal care under my auspices. I am
glad to record, too, that the number of those who avail themselves of
the facilities for convalescence after childbirth has actually almost
doubled in the last year.
In preparing this Report, I have carried out a little research into
a matter in which Sir George Newman is much interested. In his