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Ante-natal Clinic.
The Pelham Road Ante-natal Clinic continued to be held on Monday
and Saturday each week, the average attendances being 15.75, and 10.05
respectively. The Ante-natal Clinic at Wandle Park was held every other
Thursday, The average attendance was 9.59.
Midwifery and Maternity Services - Midwives Act, 1956.
A service of whole-time domiciliary midwives is provided by the
Wimbledon District Nursing and Midwifery Association under an agreement
with the Councils
Midwives Act, 1902 - 1936.
The Council is the Local Supervising Authority for the Midwives
Acts in Wimbledon.
There were six practising midwives in Wimbledon at the end of 1944,
one of whom was resident outside the Borough,
One hundred and forty-one confinements were attended by midwives
and twenty-two by maternity nurses.
Medical Aid forms were received in eighty-four instances.
The total fees paid to doctors by the Corporation daring the year
under Section 14 (1) of the Midwives Act, 1918, amounted to £115,2.6d.
The amount recovered from the patients' relatives was £67.18.l1d.
Public Health Act, 1936 (Child. Life Protection); Children and
Young Persons Act, 1932: children Act, 1908 (Part 171).
The following figures relate to the administration of the above Acts in
Wimbledon during 1944.
(i) Number of foster-mothers on the Register -
(a) At the beginning of the year 12
(b) At the end of the year 11
(ii) Number of children on the Register-
(a) At the beginning of the year 93
(b) At the end of the year 17
(c) Who died during the year -
(d) On whom inquests were held during the
year -
Every foster-child was visited regularly. In all, three hundred
and forty-five visits were made to the homes of foster-mothers.
Treatment Eacilities, - The Minor Ailment, Ophthalmic, Orthopaedic
and Aural Clinics remained" open throughout the year.
Facilities for the operative treatment of tonsils and adenoids
remained available through the usual channels.
Ophthalmia Neonatorum, - The following table shows that nine cases
of ophthalmia neonatorum were notified
In no case did any impairment of vision occur.

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