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Clinics from Avenue Road. Some mothers who would formerly
have attended at Cloister Road, also found that Pierrepoint Road
was more centrally situated, so that by the autumn the weekly
timetable was as follows:
Avenue Road Wednesday afternoon
Cloister Road Alternate Friday mornings
Palmerston Road Wednesday morning
Pierrepoint Road Alternate Thursday mornings
Trinity Way Alternate Thursday mornings
The following table shows the number of attendances made
throughout the year:
Number of new cases attending during the year 621
Total number who attended during year 839
Total number of attendances made 2,897
Average number who attended per session 14.2
POST NATAL CLINICS
There were no specific post natal clinics as the majority of
patients returned to hospital for this examination. The domisiliary
cases who had been attended by Queen Charlotte's Midwives also
attended the post natal clinic at the hospital. Two women only,
attended the local ante natal clinic for their post natal examination.
EXERCISE CLASS FOR MOTHERS
Attendance at these "relaxation classes" continued to improve.
78 new patients were taken on during the year and there was a
total of 752 attendances, an average of eight per session.
PREMATURE INFANTS
Certain changes in the compilation of statistics for the Ministry
of Health Annual Return Form L.H.S.27 have enabled us this
year to give a more complete record of the occurrence of premature
births and the survival of premature infants. Hitherto it has been
the practice for hospitals to supply statistical information to the
Ministry regarding all premature births occurring in hospital
together with information in respect of the infants' survival, It was