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available for the domiciliary treatment of maternity patients
whose condition is too grave to justify their removal to hospital.
4. Properly constructed, adequately equipped and suitably staffed
maternity accommodation (including a sufficient number of beds
allocated to and reserved for ante-natal patients) should be provided
to meet the needs in every area.
Wherever practicable the accommodation should be provided
in association with general hospitals.
5. Arrangements should be made for:—
(a) Adequate domiciliary visiting by health visitors of expectant
mothers with a view to encouraging them to engage an
attendant for the confinement and place themselves under
ante-natal supervision at an early stage of pregnancy.
(b) The provision of ante-natal clinics in every district in
which the number of expectant mothers justifies it.
(c) The establishment of consultative ante-natal clinics to
serve every area.
6. Satisfactory arrangements for the accommodation and treatment
of patients suffering from puerperal sepsis and from
abortion, are essential.
7. The development of post-natal services, including the establishment
of clinics and arrangements for in-patient treatment is
a matter of urgent necessity.
8. The education of the woman herself and of the general public
should constantly be borne in mind by all concerned with
maternal welfare, as the whole-hearted co-operation of mothers
is essential to the success of any measure designed to reduce
maternal mortality.
9. A service of home helps should, wherever practicable, be
provided.
10. Arrangements should be made in every district to ensure that
no expectant or nursing mother requiring extra nourishment on
health ground fails to receive it for such period as may be
necessary.
Maternal Mortality in Finsbury.
As the Committee are aware, the Metropolitan Borough of
Finsbury has had an exceptionally good record in the matter of