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(iv) Midwives' Act, 1936.
The following gives a summary of the cases attended by the
Council Midwives, as Midwives, and as Maternity Nurses during
1945:—

(v) Hospitals: Public and Voluntary.
(a) Infectious Diseases.
(b) Maternity.
(c) Children.
(d) Other Cases.
There is nothing new to report in either of these sections.
2.—MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE.
(i) Ante-Natal Clinics.
Sessions for this purpose continued as before, as, also, the
Consultative Ante-natal Clinic at Oldchurch County Hospital.
Arrangements were made during the year with the Medical Superintendent
of the Hospital whereby every mother, and not only
those where an abnormality is anticipated, who will subsequently
enter the hospital for confinement, is referred as a routine at least
once during pregnancy to the Ante-natal Clinic at the hospital.
During the year 1945, 1,196 individual expectant mothers attended
the clinics. In addition 16 mothers attended for post-natal
advice.
In all 199 sessions were held during the year. The total number
of attendances of the 1,212 mothers mentioned above was 4,713,
giving an average of 3.9 attendances per patient. The average
number attending at each session was 23.7.
(ii) Infant Welfare Clinics.
These sessions, also, were held as before.
Close co-operation was again maintained with the Local Food
Office, so as to enable full and satisfactory advantage to be taken
of the schemes of the Ministry of Food for the distribution of
National Dried Milk, Fruit Juices and Cod Liver Oil. These preparations
continued to be distributed from each of the Child Welfare
Centres, from the Food Office, and from the Food Advice
Centre in South Street. Suitable posters and leaflets advertising
the scheme received wide distribution from the clinics.