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London County Council: There are 30
maternity beds in the Bethnal Green Hospital, and 6
midwives are employed. Dr. W. P. Greenwood
informs me that 583 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 672 women made 3,920 attendances
at the Clinic, 228 of the mothers were also seen at
the post-natal clinic, making 280 attendances thereat.
Other.
Up to the end of the year, there were
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, are also largely used by
residents of the Borough, as shown by the following
figures furnished by them:—
In At Ante-Natal
Hospital Home Clinic
City of London Maternity Hospital, Attendances
City Road 35 3 225*
Mothers' Hospital, Clapton 13 73 153†
East End Maternity Hospital 41 — ‡
Jewish Maternity Hospital, Stepney 43 3 176°
London Hospital, Whitechapel 196 185 2,537
‡24 patients attended, but number of attendances not known.
†Relating to 25 mothers attending: in addition there were 404 attendances at the S.A. Ante-Natal Clinic at Nichols Square.
*Relating to 45 mothers attending.
°PrimiparEe also advised to attend weekly sewing class, urine test and
ante-natal care lecture.
The Royal London Maternity Charity granted 68 free midwives' letters to Bethnal Green mothers during the year.