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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; consultation at the home in exceptional cases;
provision of milk; dental treatment, including provision of dentures;
ophthalmic treatment; and artificial sunlight treatment.
At Confinement:—Payment of midwife's fees in necessitous
cases; home helps; maternity sets; consultation in cases of
difficult labour; emergency maternity outfit; institutional
accommodation; and ambulance for removal of women in labour.
Post-Natal:—Post-natal examination at the clinics, 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 a total of 823 visits
to 492 expectant mothers.
Ante-natal Clinics.
At the beginning of the year eight weekly ante-natal sessions
were held at five separate premises in the district, two maintained
by the Council of Child Welfare, the remainder by the Council.
Additional sessions were opened at the Rayners Lane Clinic and at
the Elmwood Avenue Clinic, but for the latter part of the year only
one session was held at "Tyneholme," so that, at the end of the
year ante-natal supervision could be obtained at the Council of
Child Welfare Clinic at "Tyneholme" (weekly), or at the Council's
sessions at the Broadway Clinic (twice weekly), Elmwood Avenue
Clinic (twice weekly), the Baptist Church Hall, Imperial Drive
(twice weekly), the Institute, Whitchurch Lane, Stanmore (weekly),
and the Baptist Church Hall, Northolt Road (weekly).
The following summarises the work done at the clinics during
the year:—
Total number of expectant mothers attending the
clinics 1,268
Total number of attendances by expectant mothers at
all clinics 4,963
Percentage of total notified births (live and still) represented
by the number of expectant mothers attending
the clinics 43