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The attendances at the Antenatal Clinics have broken all
records, no less than 912 mothers attended as compared with
772 in 1945 and 601 in 1944.
Owing to the increase in the birth rate and the lack of
hospital staff and maternity beds it has been more difficult
than ever to book cases for confinement in hospital and this
has led to arrangements having to be made 7 or 8 months before
confinement is due. The number admitted to hospitals or
nursing homes was 887 compared with 699 in 1945. Three
hundred and five confinements took place at home and the
Municipal Midwives attended 255 of these.
ANTENATAL EXERCISES
These exercises were started in October 1945, their aim
being to teach expectant mothers relaxation, with a view to
obtaining easier confinements; and also postural exercises,
with a view to lessening fatigue. During 1946, 48 mothers
made 386 attendances which proves that the experiment was a
successful one; moreover the mothers enjoy the classes, and
say that they derive benefit from them.
POST-NATAL CLINIC
This Clinic continued to serve a very useful purpose
and the mothers attending for examination increased from 131
in 1945 to 164 in 1946.
SUNLIGHT CLINIC
One hundred and sixteen children and 5 mothers received
courses of ultra-violet radiation and made 1,182 attendances.
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