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In addition to the health talk, assistance is given in the cutting out of
garments; patterns of the most suitable woven garments are given away, also
directions for making knitted garments and advice as to the choice of suitable
materials, model garments, which are revised from time to time, are always on
view a,t the Centre.
Miss Mary Carter and Miss Edith Joyce have given us valuable assistance
during the year by making children's garments for busy mothers from material
supplied by the mothers.
Four hundred and fifty-four hanks of wool of a special quality obtained from
Wales were sold at cost price to the value of £21. 15s. Id.
The maternity bags have been used during the year by six mothers.
Maternity outfits are placed on sale at the Centre at cost price, 6s. 2d., four
being sold last year. It is to be regretted that the price of these puts them beyond
the reach of the poorest, who are often those least well equipped, and therefore
most in need of the outfit.
Ante-Natal Hygiene.
The scheme for the voluntary notification of pregnancy, to which reference was
made in the Annual Report for 1927, came into operation at the beginning of 1928.
During the year forty voluntary notifications were received. It is probable that
as the benefits arising from early notification become more apparent greater
advantage will be taken of the scheme.
All these patients are visited and all possible help afforded.
During the year, enquiries were made of mothers as to their attendance at an
Ante-Natal Centre immediately previous to the birth of the child visited. Of 446
mothers, about whom information was obtained, 280 (66 per cent.) were found to
have attended Ante-Natal Centres or received ante-natal care as under:—
Number of enquiries made 446
Centre Attended—
Holborn Centre, 10, John Street 34
Royal Free Hospital 29
Middlesex Hospital 27
Charing Cross Hospital 44
University College Hospital 41
Myddelton Square Institution 16
St. Bartholomew's Hospital 9
City of London Hospital15
Queen Charlotte's Hospital 8
Other Centres 16
Ante-natal care from private doctors 27
Ante-natal care from midwives 14
280
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