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In September of last year the Clinic in South End Road was
transferred to new and very comfortable quarters at the Creche in 27,
Pond Street.
The mothers have appreciated the change and also the fact that a
needlework centre has been started there by Miss Kennedy, the health
visitor in charge. Flannel and wool are retailed at cost price and patterns
are provided. Miss Kennedy gives instructions how to cut out flannel
garments for the babies by the aid of these patterns.
A large number of more or less normal cases have been seen, in all
about thirty, chiefly at Kilburn.
This is accounted for chiefly by the fact that the Jubilee Nurses in
that District have been most successful in persuading those mothers who
have engaged them for their confinement to come to see me for advice
beforehand.
I cannot over emphasize the importance of this action, as so much
of the midwifery in Kilburn is undertaken by the Jubilee Nurses and
the closer the liason between them and the Ante-Natal Clinic the better.
At first sight it might seem unnecessary for normal cases to attend
the Clinic. The answer to that is, that a case which seems apparently
normal for most of the time before the confinement may develop
abnormalities during the last month or two, or in the post-natal period;
also, one is enabled to give much advice on the hygiene of the antenatal
period to these mothers.