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Section G.
MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE.
The Maternity and Child Welfare work is divided between the
Borough Council and the Royal College of St. Katharine, the Borough
Council taking approximately the areas north of Bow Road and south of
East India Dock Road; the Royal College of St. Katharine being
responsible for the intermediate area, except for a small area in the
vicinity of the Maternity and Child Welfare Centre in Wellington Road.
Extensions of Maternity and, Child Welfare Services.
The following additional sessions have been established during
the year:—
Old Ford Clinic.—Ante-natal session on Thursday mornings,
commenced at the beginning of October.
Wellington Road.—Ante-natal clinic held weekly in place of
fortnightly from beginning of October.
Midwives Act, 1936.
The London County Council's Scheme for Domiciliary Midwifery was
referred to in the report for 1937.
1. At the request of the London County Council a circular letter,
prepared by the County Medical Officer of Health, giving particulars of
the new domiciliary midwifery service was sent to all medical practitioners
practising in the Borough.
A letter was also sent to the practitioners giving particulars of the
Borough Council's Ante-Natal and Post-Natal Clinics, Ante-Natal
Consulting Clinic and the arrangements with the Consulting Obstetricians.
2. Consulting Obstetricians.—It was arranged that the whole of the
Consultants for Area "A" should be formed into one panel for the Area
and the fee payable an inclusive one of five guineas.