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sultation about their cases. In addition, the midwife is
always provided with a written report on every case, which
is afterwards returned to me with a report on the confinement.
I also receive other reports from health visitors on
cases which they visit. It will thus be seen that there is
a very close co-operation between the clinic and the midwives,
and that all patients visiting the clinic are followed
up as far as it is possible.
R. C. Townshend.
15th March, 1933.
MATERNITY CLINIC, HEREFORD STREET.
The new Ante-Natal Clinic at the Hereford Street
Centre which was opened in September, 1931, has now
become well established in the district.
Dr. Horton reports on the year's working as
follows :—
Hereford Street Ante-Natal Clinic.
The average attendance for the year has been satisfactory.
Re-appointments have been well kept and many
new cases have been recommended to the clinic by mothers
already attending it. The frequent visits of the Borough
Midwife and the midwives practising in the district have
been valuable and the interest of doctors in practice in the
Borough "has made for pleasant co-operation in the care of
the mothers. Miss Basden, M.S., F.R.C.S., of the Mildmay
Hospital has kindly given expert opinion on any case
requiring a Consultant's advice.
The one miscarriage occurred in an anaemic undernourished
woman with six children. She made a normal
recovery in hospital.
The four mothers of premature children were women
with poor home conditions and a history of illness. Two
of them had had premature children previously. They all
attended the clinic late in pregnancy.
The importance of post-natal care is apparently increasingly
realised, the majority of mothers attending for
examination after delivery. 'It is still difficult to persuade
mothers to attend the Dental Clinic, but the minority who
have had courage to do so have been surprised to find how
painless efficient dentistry can be to-day.
My thanks are due to the nursing staff on duty at