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By agreement, dated 1st January, 1924, with the Plaistow Maternity Hospital
and District Nurses' Home, the Council annually subsidise the Hospital on any
deficit from £300 in respect of 300 District Midwifery cases attended by their
midwives, reckoned at the rate of £1 per case. The takings of the Hospital for 1935
in respect of 161 cases amounted to £203 9s. 0d., leaving a balance payable to the
Hospital by the Council of £96 l1s. 0d.
During the year 1935 there were 1,135 maternity cases in the district. 146 of
these were conducted by the Plaistow Maternity Charity, 350 of them were conducted
by your own midwives at Upney Hospital, 178 were conducted by the
midwives of the Salvation Army Organisation, leaving 461 which were dealt with
by medical practitioners, private midwives or otherwise.
(d) Upney Hospital.—The admissions to the Maternity Home during 1935
numbered 373 of which 23 were admitted for ante-natal treatment.
During the past year the daily average number of beds occupied was fourteen.
The total number of bed-days was 5,132.
It was hoped to have replaced the temporary maternity home in the year under
review, but owing to several circumstances this was impracticable. It is opportune
here, however, to lay before you a sketch plan of the New Maternity Pavilion,
supplied by courtesy of the Architects, Messrs. H. H. Dawson and II. W. Allardyce.
Some interesting features of this building are that the greater part of the
ordinary nursing is congregated at one end, that no ward has more than four beds
and that there are a number of single bed wards for the reception of patients just
after they have been delivered of their babies. The Labour Suite is an entity of
its own and so also is the Admission Wing.
(e) Post-Natal Care.—In this connection I feel that more use should be made of
the gynæcological clinics and that it should be a rule of all women to be examined
say six weeks after their confinements.