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A health visitor of the Westminster City Council visits patients
in the maternity wards and family planning is discussed with them; if
contraceptive advice is requested, an appointment is given at an adjoining
Westminster City Council clinic. Follow-up and further treatment is
arranged at a Family Planning Association clinic within the borough.
The great advantage of the arrangement is that family planning can
be discussed when the patient is free from domestic and other duties,
and more likely to benefit from the advice given.
Care of the Unmarried Mother and her Child
The Council continued to grant aid to the London Diocesan Council
for Moral Welfare and the Crusade of Rescue (Westminster Catholic Moral
Welfare Association) in 1969.
Marriage Guidance
Grants were again made by the Council to the undermentioned
organisations in respect of their work with residents of the borough
during the year:-
London Marriage Guidance Council £700
Catholic Marriage Guidance Council £375
Facilities continued to be provided free of charge at the
Lancaster Road Health Centre and at the South Kensington Health Centre
for a weekly session at each for the London Marriage Guidance Council.
DOMICILIARY MIDWIFERY
During the year the appointment had been made of a non-medical
supervisor of midwives. This has had the effect of drawing the
borough's midwives closer into the community nursing team and so
enabling them to play a fuller part in health education and student
programmes.
The domiciliary services are undertaken by the midwives of the
Council, except for a district in the north of the borough where the
service is provided by midwives of Queen Charlotte's Hospital.
Midwifery previously undertaken by the Kensington District Nursing
Association was transferred to the Council's staff. The demand for
domiciliary confinement continues to fall.
Year
No, of Home
Confinements
Percentage
Reduction
1965 310
1966 236 24
1967 139 41
1968 102 27
1969 73 28