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Consultative Ante-Natal Clinic.
The following is the report of the Consultant on the work at
the above-named Clinic:—
"Consultative ante-natal clinics were started at the beginning
of April, 1938, and during the last nine months of the year, 79
patients were referred. In all, 114 attendances were made. Of these
79 patients, 54 were women expecting their first babies. All the
mothers were delivered successfully of live babies.
"When serious difficulty was anticipated, or interference was
necessary, the patients were admitted to Guy's Hospital. Disproportion
due to contracted pelvis was the commonest complication;
in three cases Caesarean Section was found necessary after a trial of
labour; in eight cases delivery was effected with forceps, varying
difficulty being encountered; and three patients had labour induced
prior to full term.
"Twenty-two were referred for albuminuria of pregnancy, on
nine occasions, induction of labour was performed. Other abnormalities
encountered were breech presentations, toxic jaundice,
chorea gravidarum, ante-partum haemorrhage and recto-vaginal
fistula."
J. B. BLAIKLEY,
M.B., B.S., F.R.C.S., M.C.O.G.