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MATERNITY SERVICES.
Facilities for Confinement.
1. Hospital Facilities.
The excellent facilities existing at Hammersmith Hospital
Post-Graduate Medical School for maternity cases in 1935
have been available again for Hammersmith mothers.
Information regarding the provision for expectant mothers
here is becoming better known, and as a result increasing
numbers are taking advantage of it.
In 1919 only 6 per cent. of Hammersmith mothers were
confined in Institutions. In 1936 this had increased to
58 per cent., and there is not the least doubt that having
experienced the comfort of the Hospital the numbers
seeking admission will increase. During 1936 there were
803 Hammersmith cases confined in Hammersmith Hospital.
Early in the year I conferred with the Hospital Staff,
and a policy of co-operation was agreed upon to facilitate
the admission of Borough ante-natal clinic cases wishing
to book at Hospital for confinement.
Any abnormal or complicated cases are at once transferred
to Hammersmith Hospital for the necessary in- or
out-patient treatment, and continue to attend the hospital,
where the most up-to-date treatment, equipment and consultative
opinion of the medical, surgical, obstetric and
special units is available, and readily given.
2. Queen Charlotte's Auxiliary Hospitals, Invermead,
Goldhawk Road.
(a) This hospital provides 20 beds for normal cases.
No beds are actually reserved for Borough Council cases,
but during the year 86 mothers residing in Hammersmith
were confined in Invermead.
(b) Queen Charlotte's Hospital Auxiliary Hospital for
Treatment and Investigation of Puerperal Sepsis, Ravenscourt
Square. This Hospital contains 30 beds.