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Patients, on the whole, attend most regularly and well, and
seem anxious in every way to benefit from the advice and help
given them at the ante-natal clinics.
The number of cases referred up by doctors and midwives
still remains small; on the other hand every effort is made in the case
of patients suffering from non-obstetric complaints to induce the
patients to attend and take the advice of their own doctors.
Borough Maternity Hospital (In Patients).—The following is a
table of cases supplied from the records of the Battersea Maternity
Hospital, which are of interest in relation to the work of the Antenatal
Department:—
I. Cases of Albuminuria recommended admission, 11.
Results—Mothers—good (1 case of eclampsia) ; Babies
9—good (2 still-born).
II. Cardiac cases recommended admission 1.
Result—Satisfactory.
III. Ante-partum haemorrhage, 5.
IV. Inductions. No. of cases, 19.
Bougie 3. Result—Mother, satisfactory ; child, satisfactory.
Drug 16. Result—Mother, satisfactory ; child, satisfactory.
V. Forceps deliveries, 14 (9 uterine inertia, 5 foetal distress).
Results—2 still births.
VI. Examinations under anaesthesia, 11.
For version, 7 (successful 5, unsuccessful 2).
For estimation of fit of head, 2.
For diagnosis (?), 2 (? twins, ? transverse and placenta
praevia).
VII. No. of cases delivered as breech at term, 4.
Diagnosed, 1 ; undiagnosed, 3.
VIII. No. of cases Caesarean Sections, 5.
In addition to the Ante-Natal Clinics held at the Municipal
Centres, there is also a Clinic for expectant mothers held fortnightly
at the Southlands premises of the Women's League of Service.
This Centre, which includes many other useful activities of a
Maternity and Child Welfare Centre,* is linked up with the Borough
Council's Scheme and receives a subsidy from the Council to enable
the work to be carried out to the standard of efficiency of the
Council's Scheme (vide page 26).
* The general work of this Centre is shewn in the table on page 29.