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Diphtheria Immunisation Clinics.
As indicated on pages 65 and 66, these clinics continued to operate throughout
the year, and were largely attended.
Maternity Cases.
The Council has not established a maternity home or hospital, having regard
to the large amount of accommodation available within the borough at Queen
Charlotte's Hospital and Middlesex Hospital. The number of births notified from
these institutions during 1938 was 2,717, the total births numbering 3,980. The
midwives residing in the borough, registered as intending to practise in the administrative
County of London, number 31. Two conduct maternity homes which are
registered by the London County Council. By an arrangement with the Paddington
and St. Marylebone District Nursing Association, all women in the borough attended
by externs of St. Mary's Hospital are provided with nursing attention by the Association.
During the year 25 cases were dealt with and 507 visits were paid, the services
of the nurses being greatly appreciated by the patients.
Maternity beds are also provided by the London County Council. The new
maternity ward at Paddington Hospital was taken into use on the 1st November,
1938. From that date maternity patients from St. Marylebone were admitted to
Paddington Hospital instead of St. Mary Abbots Hospital, Kensington, as formerly.
To secure the closer linking up of the maternity and child welfare services of
the London County Council with those of the Borough Council, arrangements have
been made for the Borough Council's two Assistant Medical Officers of Health to
be associated, in an honorary capacity, with the Paddington Hospital, where every
facility has been afforded them for seeing not only their own patients, but the work
generally of the hospital, and the maternity department in particular. This arrangement
makes for greater co-operation, and cannot fail to re-act beneficially so far as
the patients are concerned.
Obstetric Consultants.
During the year the Council approved the provision of the services of obstetric
consultants to be available for any doctor in the area needing assistance in difficulties
or complications arising during pregnancy or at or after confinement in the case of
patients resident in the Borougb. The panel of consultants consists of the undermentioned
obstetric surgeons:—
Mr. Louis Carnac Rivett, F.R.C.S.,
135, Harley Street, W.l.
Mr. Frederick William Roques, F.R.C.S.
90a, Harley Street, W.l.
Mr. William Ralph Winterton, F.R.C.S.,
41, Harley Street, W.l.
Maternity and Child Welfare Centres—Statistics.
Tables 23 and 24 on pages 36 and 37 give some idea of the work done at the
various centres during the year.