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Ante-Natal Services.
Ante-Natal Clinics.— During the year, two weekly
ante-natal sessions were held at the Becontree Clinic,
two at the Dagenham Clinic, and two at the Five Elms
Out- Patients Department. In addition, one monthly
session was held at Chadwell Heath and one at Rush
Green.
At the Five Elms Out- Patients Department the
Consultant Gynaecologist paid fortnightly visits
throughout the year, seeing a total of 185 women who
made 241 attendances.
120 cases were referred to hospital for confinement
under the Council's scheme, of whom 98 were admitted
to the East End Maternity Hospital, 18 to Charing
Cross Hospital under the care of the Consultant
Gynaecologist, and four to Oldchurch Hospital. The
cost to the Council for these patients, after the receipt
of the patients' fees, amounted to £784 0s. 0d.
45 women who attended were found to be not
pregnant and there were 124 post-natal cases.
Details of the attendances at Ante-Natal Clinics
are set out in the following tables:—

Summary of attendances at Ante-Natal Clinics
(these figures exclude the attendances at the Ante-Natal