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68 Report of the Medical Officer of Health for 1938.

Ante-Natal Clinics.
District Ante-natal clinics are held at 10 of the 13 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. They 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 September, 1937, all the Maternity Home Clinics were
held at that 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