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1968 1969
Age under 15 Nil Nil
15 - 19 36 33
20 - 24 121 85
25 - 29 50 30
30 - 34 11 4
35+ 45
unknown - 1
222 158
Marriage Guidance
Grants were again made by the Council to the under-mentioned
organisations in respect of their work with residents of the
borough during the years:-
London Marriage Guidance Council £700
Catholic Marriage Guidance Council £425
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
Over the year the domiciliary midwives have increasingly worked
within the community nursing team, and in so doing have taken part in
health teaching and student programmes.
Except for the area in the North of the Borough covered by
Queen Charlotte's Hospital Domiciliary Service, all domiciliary
midwifery is undertaken by the midwives employed by the Council.
The demand for domiciliary confinements continues to fall.
Only 52 such confinements were attended compared with 73 in the
previous year. The number of planned early discharge cases has
increased to 214 but if the Borough is to continue to provide
domiciliary experience for pupil midwives taking their Part II
training it is hoped that hospitals will encourage early discharges
in suitable cases wherever possible.
In addition,, the midwives have attended 44 mothers in the
General Practitioner Unit at St. Mary Abbots Hospital. These mothers
are medically and obstetrically normal but, for varying reasons,
cannot conveniently be delivered in their homes.
The following is a summary of midwifery services:
1. Domiciliary Deliveries
Cases booked Cases not booked
with a doctor with a doctor
attended by : Council's
midwives 38 (57) 3 (2)
Hospital
midwives 10 (13) 1 (l)
TOTAL 48 (70) 4 (3)