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Once every six weeks, four of the centres held an evening
parenteral class to which fathers were invited. In all, 19 evening
sessions were held with 333 attendances and the following table
shows the total attendances made during the year at the various
classes: —
Ante Natal, Mothercraft and Relaxation Classes
No. of Women Attending: —
Hospital Booked 805
Domiciliary Booked 102
907
Total No. of Attendances 4,463
Midwifery
Practising Midwives
Notifications of intention to practise as midwife in the London
Borough of Greenwich during 1965 were received from 108 persons
in accordance with the Midwives Act, 1951. Of these, 86 were in
respect of hospital midwives and the remainder, viz. 22, were from
those engaged in the Council's service and included the supervisory
staff.
Domiciliary Services
The Borough is divided into 16 midwifery areas, each with a
full time midwife. There have been some changes in the Council's
midwifery staff during the year but, by and large, the numbers are
well up to establishment and are tending to remain so.
As a result of patients taking advantage of the '48 hour
discharge' scheme and also of the fact that every encouragement
to enter hospital is given to all primiparas and to those mothers
having any baby after the fourth, the number of home deliveries
decreased during the current year.

NOTE: Because of complications, 154 cases booked for home confinements, were
admitted to hospital in the ante-natal period or during labour.