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Each mother who books for admission to the Borough Maternity
Hospital, or for attendance by 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 Gynecologist) reports:—
Wednesday and Thursday morning Ante-natal Clinics.
During the year 1934, 103 Sessions were held, with an average
attendance of 29.4 patients per clinic. 430 new patients were seen,
and the total attendances at the clinics numbered 3,027.
Classification of new cases.
Of the new cases attending the Clinics, 234—or more than
50 per cent. were primiparæ, 194 were multipart, of which no
fewer than 85 or approximately 45 per cent. were "return cases"
—i.e., had previously been confined in the Battersea Borough
Maternity Home, or by the Borough Midwife—and 2 were not
pregnant.