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SECTION II
PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICES SECTION
During the year work on the Elm Park and Horn church Clinics
was completed. In each Clinic this entailed considerable extensions
and alterations resulting virtually in complete reconstruction.
The result has more than compensated for the
inconvenience suffered whilst the building works were being
carried out as the services provided at these clinics now have
adequate facilities.
Several discussions with local general practitioners and
officers of the Executive Council on the possible provision
of health centres were held during the year, but at the end of the
year, no definite proposals had resulted.
MATERNITY SERVICES
The work of the Maternity Liaison Committee, on which
hospital consultants and mid wives, general practitioners, and
local authority doctors and mid wives are represented, has again
proved of great value in joint planning of the maternity services
of the area and I would like to acknowledge again my appreciation
of the full co-operation of my colleagues.
Ante Natal Care
All expectant mothers are either booked for hospital confinement
or book a general medical practitioner for home confinement.
Therefore, the necessity for the Department to staff ante-natal
clinics with doctors as well as midwives has declined considerably
over the recent years. A proportion of District Midwives hold
their ante-natal clinics in conjunction with general practitioners.
Statistics are given in the following table:—