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The North East Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board has continued to
provide consultant obstetricians at the Tottenham clinics and, as from 2nd
December, 1953, appointed Miss Margaret Salmond, M.B.E., M.D., F.R.C.S.,
F.R.C.O.G., to undertake two sessions a week at the Park Lane Medical Centre.
Midwives Ante-natal Clinics
At the beginning of the year a separate midwife's clinic was started at
the Mildura Court Centre, and the following table shows the attendances made
at all clinics during the year:-

Blood Tests
At three of the ante natal clinics the mothers attending have their
blood tested for haemoglobin as anaemia in an expectant mother is a serious
disability for both mother and child the mother is tested on her first
visit and thereafter as often as may be required. In this way the state of
her blood is kept under review and where iron deficiency is found, iron in the
most suitable form for the patient is given.

In addition to haemoglobin estimation all expectant mothers attending
ante-natal clinics have a specimen of blood taken for Wasserman reaction,
blood grouping and determination of Rhesus factor.