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Ante-Natal Work.
The Ante-Natal Clinics provided by the Council under their
Maternity and Child Welfare Scheme are under the direction and
supervision of the Consultant Gynaecologist (Miss Alice Bloomfield,
m.d., f.r.c.s.). These Clinics are held at the new Out-patient
Department of the Borough Maternity Hospital on Tuesdays and
Wednesdays, and for the convenience of patients living at a distance
from the Hospital a session is held at the Southlands Centre on
Fridays. Subsidiary Clinics are held at the Plough Road and East
Battersea Centres, which are attended by the Assistant Medical
Officer (Maternity and Child Welfare), and the Women's League of
Service, a voluntary organisation, whose Battersea Centre for Maternity
and Child Welfare is linked up with that of the Council's Scheme,
also holds an Ante-Natal Clinic at their Southlands premises. Each
mother who books for admission to the Borough Maternity Hospital,
or for attendance of the Borough Maternity Nursing Staff in her
own home, is required to attend the Ante-Natal Clinic periodically
before her confinement, and every case is seen at least once by the
Consultant Gynaecologist. Doctors and private Midwives practising
in Battersea are also encouraged to send their maternity
patients to the Central Ante-Natal Clinic at the Borough Maternity
Hospital for examination and report by the Consultant Gynaecologist.
Miss Bloomfield (Consultant Gynaecologist) reports:—
Tuesday Afternoon ("Special") Clinic.—In all, 51 sessions of
this Clinic were held, with a total attendance of 901, i.e. an average
of 17.7 per clinic. New cases numbered 841, and blood for the
Wassermann reaction was taken in 832 of these cases, with 6 positive
results. Of these 832 cases, 779 attended for blood examination
only, while 53 cases attended also for other reasons, and 9 cases are
included in the total—841—in which a blood examination was not
done.
Other reasons for attendance were as follows:—
Vaginal discharge—in all 17 cases, in 5 of whom film
examinations were made, and many of whom required repeated
treatments, over some weeks.
For Prolapse.
Retroversion of the Gravid Uterus.
For the diagnosis of pregnancy, &c.
Remarks—The figure, 53, of cases attending this Clinic for
other reasons than blood examination is an increase over previous
years, showing that the Clinic is gradually but definitely becoming
recognised, and used as a consultative Gynaecological Clinic.
N.B.—It is also after this Clinic that the various "examinations
under anaesthesia" are carried out. (For details see later.) These
numbered 14.
Wednesday and Thursday Morning Ante-Natal Clinics.—These
Clinics numbered 104, with a total attendance of 3,027, and an