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Consultations are also held at the Municipal Ante-Natal
Clinic, 140, Camberwell Road, and at the Voluntary Association
Clinic, 616, Old Kent Road.
Expectant mothers are also supervised by the Medical Officers
at the Cambridge House and the Kempshead Hall Voluntary
Centres at the regular Infant Clinic Sessions.
These arrangements offer an efficient ante-natal care service
to every pregnant woman in the Borough who prefers to remain at
home for her confinement, but unfortunately the attendances at
the hospital clinics during the year were extremely disappointing
as the information provided in the following return shows.

These figures do not include the number of women who made
arrangements to enter St. Giles' and Dulwich Hospitals for their confinements
and who received ante-natal supervision at these hospitals.
Post-Natal.
Post-natal clinic services are also included in the St. Giles'
and Dulwich Hospitals Scheme of supervision of patients referred
to these hospitals by private medical practitioners and practising
midwives under the terms of the agreement existing between the
County Council and this Authority.
Post-natal care is essential in order to promote recovery of
overstretched muscles, for the treatment of injuries, displacements ;
chronic infections, and other sequelae resulting from child-bearing.
During the year the Health Visitors, at their first visit to
the patients' homes, advised 700 mothers to seek medical attention
owing to the state of their health after confinement.
Pre-School Child (Toddler).
The large number of children found every year to have
physical defects at their first medical examination in school acquire