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Since January, 1936, each mother who booked the district
midwife has been supplied with a sterilised maternity outfit.
Twenty-seven of the 150 cases attended during the year were
dealt with by the relief midwife.
BOROUGH MATERNITY HOSPITAL.
The Borough Maternity Hospital is situate at 19 and 20
Bolingbroke Grove, overlooking Wandsworth Common. It was
established soon after the war, and was opened for the reception of
maternity cases in February, 1921. Accommodation is provided
for 30 patients at one time.
A district midwifery service for the attendance of the district
midwife on patients in their own homes is also directed from the
hospital.
The fees for the hospital are fixed according to a scale adopted
by the Council. A sub-committee of the Health Committee meets
monthly to consider, amongst other matters, appeals against the
assessments made.
The nursing staff consists of a matron, two sisters and 3 staff
nurses.
There is accommodation also in the hospital for 8 pupil
midwives undergoing training, the hospital having been approved
as a training institution since 1922. The position of the hospital
under the new rules of the Central Midwives' Board is referred to
on page 40.
The central ante-natal clinics and the special treatment clinic
are held at the out-patient department of the hospital.
A post-natal clinic is also held at the hospital. During 1937
there were 50 sessions held and 422 attendances were made, 364
being of new cases. The average attendance per session was 8.4.
Arrangements have been made for Mr. F. W. Roques, m.ch.,
f.r.c.s., f.c.o.g., of the Middlesex Hospital, to act as consultant
obstetrician, and his services are available in cases of grave emergency.
It was found necessary to call him to 24 patients during
the year for the following reasons:—
Ante-partum haemorrhage 1
Caesarean section 12
Forceps deliveries 3
Pyrexia 5
Toxaemia of pregnancy 1
Trial labour 1
Other reasons 1
In pursuance ot the arrangement made in 1936 and referred
to in the last annual report, Mr. Roques pays routine visits to the
hospital.
During 1937 477 cases were admitted to the hospital as compared
with 418 cases during 1936 (in which year the home was closed
during a period of ten weeks), 489 in 1935, 493 in 1934, and 543 in
1933.