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Consultant Services for Complicated Cases of Midwifery.—The Council
has provided through the consulting staff of Westminster Hospital the services
by day and by night at the patient's home of an obstetrician of consulting
status. Those services are for necessitous cases, that is to say,
those who cannot ordinarily afford the services of a specialist. Any
medical practitioner, in doubt or difficulty, by telephoning to the hospital
(special telephone Whitehall 3901) can have such skilled assistance,
which is also available to all midwives practising in Westminster who
may require it.
Ante-natal Services.—There are seven ante-natal clinics in the City of
Westminster and at least two others within half a mile of the boundaries.
Three of those clinics are directly under the City Council's control at its
own centres, one at a voluntary centre, three in general hospitals in the
City and two at hospitals outside the City but in the vicinity.
While the nett number of births registered during the year was
1,063, the number of expectant mothers dealt with at the centres was 805;
that is to say, some 75.7 per cent. of the total cases, as compared with the
percentage of 79.5 for the previous year.