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An analysis of these cases shows :—
Full-term confinements 202
Premature births 51
Miscarriages (6) ; Stillbirths (8) 14
Not yet confined 74
Left Borough (results unknown) 14
The known confinements took place :—
167 at home, and
54 in institutions.
The results of the 96 cases brought forward from
1933 were as follows :—
Full-time confinements 89
Premature births —
Miscarriages (-); Stillbirths (1) 1
Found to be not pregnant 3
Left district (result unknown) 3
Dr. R. C. Townshend reports on the work of the
Maternity Clinic, as follows :—
Report to the Medical Officer of Health on the Cornwall Road Maternity
Clinic for the year 1934.
I am glad to be able to give a satisfactory report of the
result of the work at the Clinic during the year, although there
has been a decrease in the attendances, due I believe to an
increased desire on the part of the mothers to be confined in
hospital or an institution, and their consequent attendance at
the ante-natal clinics in connection with these institutions.
This fact also leads to the transfer of a considerable number
of mothers at the 7th month of pregnancy to the clinic attached
to the hospital at which they are going to be confined.
A considerable number of mothers have been recommended
for dental treatment, but it is very difficult to persuade
expectant mothers to avail themselves of this.
There were no deaths amongst the mothers attending
the Clinic.
There was one Caesarean birth in a mother who had already
undergone two previous operations for Caesarean section.
With regard to the miscarriages, in one case the patient
was a primipara who attended the Clinic for "the first time on
account of a threatened miscarriage and her symptoms were
so urgent that she was immediately recommended to hospital
for treatment. The remaining cases occurred in multiparae,
and in one case the patient attended for the first time with