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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 1936
in respect of 187 cases amounted to £237 4s. 6d., leaving a balance payable to the
Hospital by the Council of £62 15s. 6d.
During the year 1936 there were 1,092 maternity cases in the district. 145 of
these were conducted by the Plaistow Maternity Charity, 362 of them were conducted
by your own midwives at Upney Hospital, 175 were conducted by the
midwives of the Salvation Army Organisation, leaving 410 which were dealt with
by medical practitioners, private midwives or otherwise.
(d) Upney Hospital.—The admissions to the Maternity Home during 1936
numbered 397 of which 35 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 5,211.
(e) Post-Natal Care.—In this connection I feel that more use should be made of
the gynaecological clinics and that it should be a rule of all women to be examined
say six weeks after their confinements.
(f) Gynæcological Clinics.—The numbers attending these clinics show an
increase, but the majority of the women who attend have been referred by a medical
officer at an infant welfare clinic or have been urged to attend by a health visitor,
as a result of her observations and enquiries during routine district visiting.