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CARE OF EXPECTANT MOTHERS
The number of sessions devoted, to this work were:-
York House Centre One weekly session, plus additional
session on second and fourth week
each month.
Whitton Centre Two weekly sessions.
Teddington Centre Two weekly sessions.
Hampton Centre One session first, third and fourth
week of each month.
Year Attendances Total
for first time attendances
1939
720 2191
1940 750 2998
1941770 3375
1942 1038 4842
1943 5094
1944 944 4393
The number of expectant mothers who were evacuated
through the Government Scheme was eleven.
Certain foods were supplied to expectant mothers for
whom special treatment was ordered. Those foods were supplied
free in necessitous cases. Vitamin preparations as supplied by
Ministry of Food to expectant mothers continued to be distributed
for each ante-natal clinic.
No request for the services of a consultant was made
during the year.
The scheme introduced in the latter part of 1943. whereby
expectant mothers could be X-rayed has proved satisfactory. The
scheme has been extended to allow Doctors in private practice to
send their patients also.
Total number of expectant mothers who ware X-rayed was
392 and of these 14. were found to be in need of further
observation and/or treatment.
The fee payable by the Council for each mother to the
hospitals is 10/6d.
BIRTH CONTROL
No birth control clinic is held in the Borough, but
women for whom further pregnancy is considered inadvisable for
medical reasons are referred to the Birth Control Clinic at
Hounslow or Richmond. In necessitous cases the Corporation
undertakes responsibility for payment for consultations and
appliances.
CARE OF MOTHERS DURING CONFINEMENT
The Corporation have not established a maternity home and
have no formal agreement with any hospital for the reception of
difficult or complicated cases. These are referred to the West
Middlesex County Hospital.
The full establishment of home helps for the Borough is
five but there is great difficulty in recruiting suitable women
for this work. There were three full-time home helps on the staff
but this number was complemented by the employment of part-time
home helps. The charges for the services of the home helps varied in
accordance with the financial position of the' applicant from no
charge to full cost.
The number of home helps supplied during the year was 86.
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