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MATERNITY SERVICES.
The facilities offered to mothers, expectant or parturient,
include:—
Ante-Natal:— Ante-natal supervision by home visiting; antenatal
clinics; general practitioners' ante-natal scheme; consultant
ante-natal clinic; milk in the last three months of pregnancy;
dental treatment, including provision of dentures; artificial sunlight
treatment; home helps.
At Confinement Institutional accommodation; payment of
midwives' fees in necessitous cases; home helps; provision of
maternity sets; consultation for cases of difficult labour; ambulance
for removal of women in labour.
Post-Natal:— Post-natal examination at the clinic, including
consultant clinic; provision of milk to nursing mothers; dental
treatment; artificial sunlight treatment; convalescent homes;
home nursing; provision of consultations for cases of puerperal
infection, and institutional treatment for such cases.
ANTE-NATAL SUPERVISION.
Home Visiting.
During the year the Health Visitors paid the total of 852
visits to 489 expectant mothers. Some of these visits are paid so
that the Health Visitors can advise the mothers in those cases
where the confinement is to take place at home; a number of
visits are paid as a result of the non-attendance of the mother at
the ante-natal clinic; and a number follow on the request of
hospitals at which the expectant mothers have attended, for a
report on the home circumstances.
Ante-natal Clinics.
At the beginning of the year ante-natal clinics were held twice
weekly by the Council of Child Welfare at "Tyneholme," and
the District Council held weekly sessions at the Elmwood and
Broadway Clinics. The Middlesex County Council continued up
to the end of January the monthly clinic at St. George's Hall,
Headstone. A number of sessions were opened at various premises
in the district during the course of the year, so that at the end
of the year facilities were available at the Council of Child Welfare
Clinics at "Tyneholme" (twice weekly) and at the following clinics
maintained by the District Council:—Broadway Clinic, Wealdstone
(twice weekly), Elmwood Clinic, Kenton (weekly), The Institute,
Whitchurch Lane, Stanmore (weekly), and the Baptist Church Hall,
Imperial Drive (weekly).
The following summarises the work done at the clinics during
the year
Total number of expectant mothers attending
the clinics 823