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City of Westminster 1925

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, City of]

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Table: Table III.

Table III.

1921.1922.1923.1924.1925.
As midwife103951087573
As emergency1372——
With hospital students275——
With private doctor1—1——
Total1191091167573
Number of—
Pre-natal visits919527610570779
Lying-in visits8808661,402920939
Subsequent visits115358172315335
Visits to infants under 1 year
other than lying-in visits158215172266234
Total number of visits2,0721,9662,3562,0712,287

Table: Table IV. Attendances by midwife at ante-natal and other clinics :—

Table IV. Attendances by midwife at ante-natal and other clinics :—

19211922192319241925
1, Pimlico Road8341724054
15, Bessborough Street10573628375
Total188114134123129

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The Westminster Health Society provide midwives for a similar object
in the areas of the City under its organisation. Until the middle of the year
four midwives were employed, two working in St. John and St. Margaret
wards, and two in the northern area (Strand, Covent Garden, Soho, etc.).
In the former area the midwives co-operate with Westminster Hospital
by nursing the outdoor cases of that institution. In the northern area
the two midwives performed the duties concerned with all the outdoor
cases of Charing Cross Hospital, for which a grant was paid to the Society
by the hospital. This arrangement was discontinued in July, when the
Society relinquished all midwifery practice in this area. The hospital
then became responsible for the attendance on their own outdoor maternity
cases and employed midwives on the staff of the hospital for this purpose.
The table which follows summarises the work of the Society in this sphere.
It has been the custom in both areas for the Society's midwives to
attend the ante-natal clinics at each hospital concerned, bringing for
advice cases in which there were elements of doubt or difficulty.