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16
MATERNITY.
Public.
The Borough Council has two Maternity Clinics,
one at Cornwall Road, and one at St. Matthew's
Institute, Hereford Street, at which a variety of work
for maternal welfare is carried on. The Council also
employs a midwife, who resides in the borough. (For
further particulars see the section of this report dealing
with Maternity and Child Welfare).
London County Council: There are 18 beds in
the Maternity ward in Bethnal Green Hospital, and 3
midwives are employed. Dr. W. P. Greenwood informs
me that 298 maternity cases (including 11 stillbirths)
were dealt with in the year. An ante-natal clinic is
held weekly for women intending to enter the hospital
for confinement and 271 women made 1,106 attendances
at the Clinic, 48 of the mothers were also seen
at the post-natal clinic, making 61 attendances thereat.
Other.
There are 2 private midwives living and practising
in the borough while about 6 others who reside outside
also occasionally practice in the borough.
The maternity services connected with the London
Hospital, City of London Maternity Hospital, Salvation
Army Midwives, Maternity Home, 24, Underwood
Street, E.l, Maternity Hospital, 384-396, Commercial
Road, E.l, and Royal London Maternity Charity,
although these Institutions are situated or directed
from outside the Borough, are also largely used by
residents of the Borough. Through the courtesy of
the respective Secretaries, I have been informed that
Bethnal Green mothers were confined as follows:—
In
Hospital
At
Home
Ante-Natal
Attend'nces
City of London Maternity Hospital,
City Road
47 7 *
Mothers Hospital, Clapton
24 96 161
Jewish Maternity Hospital, Stepney
37 5 *
London Hospital, Whitechapel
215 274 2,571
*Figures not furnished.