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Ante-Natal Centres
One Ante-Natal Clinic is held each month at the Cavendish
Road, Meopham Road and Mitcham Court Centres, and one
clinic each week in connection with Woodlands Maternity Home.
Since November 1937, an extra clinic has been held once a month
at Woodlands.
With the appointment of three Municipal Midwives under
the Midwives Act, 1936, there has been a corresponding increase
in the amount of ante-natal work, and therefore a special clinic
for cases booked by the midwives was opened on April 13, and
has been held once a month at Mitcham Court since that date.
The total number of expectant mothers attending the centres
was 503, the total number of attendances being 2,950, the average
attendance 21.3. Of the total number of notified births, 51.3 per
cent. of the mothers had attended the ante-natal centres, as
against 49 per cent. in the previous year.
The following table shows the steady growth of ante-natal
work in the Borough during the six years 1933-1938 inclusive:—