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greatly reduced number of births for 1948, the figures for the
whole year calculated on the figures for the half year presented,
show a fall in attendances. In view of the increasing scope and
extent of the examinations carried out at the Ante-Natal
Clinics, this is perhaps a good thing if the numbers are kept
within manageable proportions. It will be noticed that at one
of these Clinics the attendance figures are considerably below
the others, this is because the time consuming new cases are
referred to this Clinic and, now that it has become a routine
operation to withdraw blood intravenously for the midwives
cases at their first attendance, the time spent on each patient
has consequently increased.

(A primary post-natal visit is the visit of a post-natal woman who
has not attended previously either ante-natally or post-natally, so that
the figures for primary attendances of individuals represent the number
of new cases during the year.)
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