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The numbers seen at the Post-natal Clinics at Dynham Road and
Pond Street are slowly increasing though it takes a long time to teach
the mothers to come up as soon as they have been delivered. Most of
the patients are, on the whole, in fairly good condition and the list of
abnormal conditions found will shew from what the larger number of
them were suffering.
There are still rather a large number of breast abscesses and I
think if the patients would only come up as soon as they leave hospital
these might be obviated, as many of the patients have very little idea
as to how to feed their first baby and this often leads to cracked
nipples and thus infection.
It will be seen that dental treatment has been advised in a large
number of cases, but I am sorry to say that many of them refuse to
have their teeth done, saying they will get them done later after they
have finished nursing the baby. I doubt very much if they are ever
done and treatment is put oft" in this way.
The small number of patients who go to convalescent homes is
deplorable. It seems impossible to persuade them to leave home again
when they have only recently returned after the birth of their baby.
Many of them are in sore need of this treatment.
Not many cases have been given birth control advice as we do not
give it at the clinic unless there is some medical reason for preventing
very rapid pregnancies succeeding each other with too short an interval
between.