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Consultation Centres.
Summary of Work for the Year 1925.
Harrow Road.
Third Avenue.
Macroom
Road.
St.
Mary's
Terrace.
Randolph
Gardens.
London
Street.
Totals
Tues.
Thurs.
Tues.
Fri.
Wed.
Wed.
Thurs.
Fri.
Number of Sessions
50
52
50
50
50
51
52
50
405
Number of Attendances
2,321
2,648
3,223
3,051
2,373
1,993
1,710
1,222
18,541
Average Attendance
46.42
51.92
64.46
61.02
47.46
39.08
32.88
24.44
45.78
Seen by Doctor
965
1,064
1,268
1,277
986
1,247
1,059
724
8,590
Average number seen by Doctor
at each Session
19
20
25
26
20
24
20
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Ante-Natal Clinic.
Number of Sessions 49
Number of Attendances 507 by 256 expectant mothers.
Average Attendance per Session 10.35
Home Visiting.
Visits to Babies 14,357
Visits to Expectant Mothers 560
Other Visits 8,233
Supply of Dried Milk, Etc., at Consultation Centres.
1924. 1925.
£ £
Purchases of Dried Milks, etc. 1,575 1,439
Sales „ „ 1,506 1,482
Grants „ „ 25 30
Queen Charlotte's Maternity Hospital.—During the year 1925, 112 infants of mothers resident
in Paddington attended the Infant Consultation Centre. The total attendances were 3,696.
As regards ante-natal consultations, exact figures are not available.
There were received into the Hospital for confinement 293 women from Paddington in 1924, and
248 women in 1925. These numbers would be approximately equivalent to the number of women
from Paddington attending the Ante-natal Department in those years, and the average number of
attendances in the Ante-natal Department in those years was times per patient.
With regard to Outpatients in 1924, 400 Paddington women were delivered in their own homes
by midwives from the Hospital, and 466 in 1925 ; each of these would have attended the Ante-natal
Department about 2\ times on the average.
St. Mary's Hospital.—There is no Infant Consultation Centre at this Hospital, but Ante-natal
Consultations are held. There are no figures available as to the number of Paddington mothers
who attended such consultations, but the number of Paddington mothers delivered at their own
homes during 1925 was 172, and presumably all of these received ante-natal examination and advice.
Maternity Nursing.—In December, 1924, the Couneil decided to ask the Minister of Health to
sanction an arrangement with the Paddington and St. Marylebone District Nursing Association
providing for the services of trained maternity nurses in connection with lying-in cases attended
by the students and the Medical Officer of the Extern Midwifery Department of St. Mary's Hospital.
An agreement subsequently entered into with the Association came into operation in April, 1925.
During the nine months to the end of the year rather more than 100 women were attended in their
homes by the nursing staff. The arrangement appears to be working satisfactorily. I propose to
deal more fully with the subject in my next report.