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Ante-natal cases are carefully followed up. All missed appointments
both for Borough Clinics and St. Andrew's Hospital (when notified) are
visited before the next session.
Of the maternal deaths the only ante-natal cases which were not
followed up were those of which there was no knowledge that the women
were pregnant and of the 10 deaths we consider were associated with
pregnancy only one was visited before confinement.
During the year an endeavour has been made to follow up children who
received treatment, either at out-patients' departments or as in-patients,
at several of the hospitals in or near the Borough boundaries, and with
this object in view a system of obtaining reports regarding such patients
was introduced. Where following up is necessary this will be done by
the health visitors. The scheme was put into operation in January, 1936.
Clinics. (See Table, page 110.)
(i) Infant Consultations have been well attended and the mothers are
responding to the efforts made by the health visitors to get the "toddlers"
to the clinics so that they may be seen by the Doctor at least four times
a year.
The attendance at Simpsons Road Clinic of the school girls from
the London County Council Domestic School has been successful. The
60 girls who attended were well-behaved and were keen to learn and see
all that was possible.
(ii) Ante-natal.—We have endeavoured to make visits to the Antenatal
Clinic a commonsense procedure and to protect the mother as far as
possible from the knowledge of complications, abnormalities, etc., and
rather to dwell on the importance of cleanliness, suitable clothing, fresh
food, and a happy and normal outlook during the nine months. The
practical teaching and advice given to the mother at the clinic is supplemented
by the health visitor when visiting. The aim of this steady and
quiet education is to make the mothers realise their own importance at
this time and their duty to themselves as prospective mothers. The
co-operation of the mothers is essential to success in this work.
We offer our thanks to the Royal College of St. Katharine for their
co-operation, and to the many friends who have given grants towards the
cost of dentures, presents, or woollies and jumble.