View report page

Post-natal and Birth Control Clinic.
Table D
Number of sessions held : 24.
Number of attendances :—
Post Natal
Birth Control
First Visits
92
66
Re-attendances
70
194
Ante-Natal Clinics.
The number of new patients seen at the ante-natal clinics during the year was 940,
and the total number of attendances was 4,861 (2,614 at the Manor House and 2,247 at the
Branch Centre).
811 cases were completed during the year, and the attendances in respect of these
were as follows of Cases
One attendance 90
Two attendances 57
Three attendances 60
Four attendances 82
Five attendances 84
Six or more attendances 438
For table of comparison of figures for last eight years, and the proportion of new
cases to re-visits, see Appendix, Table X.
The number of attendances continued to be very high. The optimum attendance
at an ante-natal session should be 22 ; this would give time for a reasonable consultation,
and many difficulties—social and physical—could be discussed, which at an overcrowded
clinic may never be discovered by the doctor.
The numbers attending in 1946 have been as high as 32 at one session, and to relieve
the position somewhat, the additional session commenced last year was continued.
Table E.I
Completed cases
811
Uncompleted cases
246
Non-pregnant
21
Removals from district
55
Table E.II
Details of Completed Cases
Primipara
(1st
Pregnancy)
Multipara
(2nd or
Subsequent
Pregnancy)
Delivered at
home
Admitted to Hospital
or Nursing Home
Primipara
Multipara
Primipara
Multipara
Normal cases
297
373
90
185
207
188
Abnormal cases
62
79
6
16
56
63
Of the cases dealt with, therefore, 44 per cent, were primiparae (against 38 per cent,
in 1945), and of these 72 per cent, (against 81 per cent, in 1945) were confined in hospital,
while 55 per cent, (against 51 per cent.) of the multiparae were also confined in hospital.
Table XI in Appendix gives the chief abnormalities found during the year.
11