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"The children referred during the year were suffering from various complaints, the largest proportions
having debility and anaemia (50 in all), rheumatism
and heart affections (34 in all), and chest complaints
such as bronchitis, pneumonia and asthma (33 in
all)."
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 Hospital, and 4
mid wives are employed. Ur. W. P. Greenwood
informs me that 4-14 maternity cases were dealt
with in the year. An ante-natal clinic is held weekly
for women intending to enter the hospital for confinement and 515 women made 2,478 attendances
at the Clinic, 235 of the mothers were also seen at
the post-natal clinic, making 316 attendances thereat.
Other.
There are 2 private midwives living and practising
in the borough while several others who reside outside also occasionally practise 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