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the neighbourhood, providing as it does an intern and extern
midwifery service. It had always a reputation for a high
standard of training for midwives and now even demands
that its pupils shall study there longer than the Central
Midwives Board requires. It must be a source of satisfaction
to its Committee that the standard they set for the last
twenty-one years—six months' training for a certificated
nurse and twelve months for any other person—will, after
April, 1926, be compulsory for all pupil midwives in every
training school in the country. In 1922 new buildings were
opened in Samuel Street, but unfortunately sufficient funds
were not available to enable the Management to provide a
complete hospital and training school on one site, and so it
has been necessary to keep the old hospital in Wood Street as
an ante-natal clinic. The new building has been so constructed
to allow for further extension.
I am indebted to Miss Gregory, the Secretary of the Hospital,
for the following information, which shows statistically the
cases dealt with during the year.
Mothers admitted during the year 648
„ „ for observation and temporarily
discharged 175
Number of children bom 656
Maternal deaths 4
Infant deaths 5
Extern cases 218
Ante-natal Clinic:
Mothers attending 1,295
Total attendances 4,093
Post-natal Clinic:
Mothers attending 10
Total attendances 11
Infant Clinic:
Infants attending 432
Total attendances 1,125