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The number of women who attended the ante-natal clinics during 1936 amounted
to approximately 49 per cent. of the confinements of mothers resident in the Borough
during the year.
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 six occasions during the year
covered by this report.
NATAL WORK.
Midwives.
The total number of midwives on the roll practising in Shoreditch at the end of
the year 1935 was 38. At the end of the year there were 26 midwives practising in
the Borough. The reduced number is due to the exclusion of those midwives, who,
although attached to Organisations doing midwifery work in Shoreditch, do not
themselves come into the Borough for this purpose. The number of births attended
by midwives was 517, which represents 40 per cent, of the total births notified during
the year.