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16
MATERNITY.
Public.
The Borough Council has two Maternity Clinics,
one at Cornwall Avenue, and one at St. Matthew's
Institute, Hereford Street, at which a variety of work
for maternal welfare is carried on. (For further
particulars see the section of this report dealing with
Maternity and Child Welfare).
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 696 live births were dealt with
in the year. An ante-natal clinic is held weekly
for women intending to enter the hospital for confinement
and 741 women made 4,644 attendances
at the Clinic, 430 of the mothers were also seen at
the post-natal clinic, making 430 attendances thereat.
Other.
The Midwifery service has undergone a profound
change as a result of the Mid wives Act, 1936. The
L.C.C. home midwifery service has enrolled a great
many of the former private midwives and has also
largely co-ordinated the various voluntary midwifery
services. Thore is still however one private midwife
practising in the borough. The L.C.C. midwives
attended 74 births in the borough during the year.
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 bv
residents of the Borough, as shown by the following
figures furnished by them :—