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The number of women who attended the Ante-Natal Clinics during 1933
amounted to approximately 35 per cent of the confinements in the Borough
during the year. In three cases X-ray examinations were made at St.
Leonard's Hospital.
The decrease to be noticed, both as regards home visits and attendances
at ante-natal centres, in the figures for 1933, is associated with the fact that
St. Leonard's Hospital and the Salvation Army Nurses at Nichols Square
now have ante-natal centres of their own, and that Sister Leaton, the
Municipal Midwife, now does a considerable number of ante-natal visits—
see her report, page 129.
Panel of Consultants.
A medical practitioner in attendance upon a woman resident in Shoreditch
can upon application to the Medical Officer of Health obtain the advice
of a consultant upon any condition arising during pregnancy, parturition or
the puerperium.
The names of the consultants who are available under this arrangement
will be found in the section of this report dealing with Staff.
The services of a consultant were engaged on two occasions during the
year covered by this report.
Maternity Outfits.
Packages of sterile dressings for confinement cases have been supplied
by the Borough Council since 1929. These are supplied on the recommendation
of the doctor or midwife by whom the confinement is to be conducted.
The cost of the packets to the Council is 5s. 2d., and the patient is asked to
contribute what can be afforded.
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