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The auxiliary centre at St. Matthew's Institute,
Hereford Street, is used for Infant Consultation
Sessions on Monday and Thursday afternoons, and an
Ante-Natal Clinic on Thursday mornings.
The following ratios may be of interest :—
Ante-Natal
Clinics
Children's
Clinics
Acreage per Centre
380
380
Population per Centre
49,925
49,925
Percentage of new expectant mothers,
or babies under 1, attending Centres
respectively, to total net births
32.3
71.4
MATERNITY CLINIC (CORNWALL ROAD).
This is open every Wednesday and Thursday
morning.
Particulars of attendances :
Total
Expectant Mothers—First visits
299
1,240
„ —Subsequent visits
941
Mothers recently confined—First visits
171
259
,, „ „ —Subsequent visits
88
Total Attendances
1,499
The number of sessions was 101, and the average
attendance per session was 14.8, as compared with
12.2 the previous year.
84 of the mothers who attended for pre-natal care
also attended the Maternity Clinic after their confinement,
and 23 of them were sent away to a con-
valescent home
The 299 women who attended for the first time
may be grouped as follows :—
Gravid :—Primiparæ
29
—Multiparæ
241
270
Not pregnant
29
299