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Midwives Clinics
Domiciliary midwives assist at all but two of the ante-natal clinics.
An attempt is made to ensure that this work is done by the midwife
who is likely to deliver the patient in each case. In four centres separate
midwives clinics are held and the following table shows the attendances
made during the year.

Post-natal Care
An appointment is made for each mother to attend for a post-natal
examination at the clinic which she attended as an expectant mother,
approximately six weeks after the confinement. Here she is seen by
the doctor who undertook her ante-natal care and who knows her and
any special features connected with the case. The hospital's or midwife's
report on the confinement is held in readiness for this examination so
that the examining doctor knows all the facts connected with the case.
Each mother is encouraged to keep this appointment so that any
defects which may have resulted from her confinement are detected and
treated at once so as to avoid future disability.
Care of Premature Infants
There is an agreement with the North Middlesex Hospital for the
admission of any woman in premature labour, to avoid delivery at
home and later transfer to hospital. The hospital will admit the case
on a midwife's or doctor's request, and this applies also to the need to
transf er a premature child born at home.
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