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Maternity and, Child Welfare. 65

Ante-Natal Clinics.
District Ante-natal clinics are held at nine of the 12 centres
in the Borough for the benefit of women who have arranged to
have their confinements either at their own homes or in institutions
other than the Council's Maternity Home. Ante-natal clinics
are also held for women who have booked for admission to the
Council's Maternity Home. These are conducted by the Midwives
of the Home and by Practitioners on the rota of doctors who are
on call for duty in the Maternity Home when their services are
required. All women who have booked for admission to the Home
are required to attend these ante-natal clinics as often as is
necessary.
Until this year all the Maternity Home Clinics were held at
the institution, and women from some districts of the Borough
had to travel long distances in order to visit them. It was therefore
decided, when the Clinic at the Municipal Buildings became
available to hold some of the Maternity Home Ante-natal clinics
there for the convenience of women residing in Wandsworth and
Putney. A clinic conducted by the Matron of the Maternity
Home is now held there once a week and in alternative weeks
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