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surrounding area. Six sessions for expectant mothers are held
weekly at these clinics, a doctor and health visitor being present at
each session. At Grange Road and Maybury Road clinics the
municipal midwife also attends, and is present with the doctor at
the examination of her cases. Pupil midwives from Forest Gate
Hospital attend West Ham Lane and Forest Gate ante-natal
clinics.
Ante-natal sessions are held at three of the voluntary clinics,
a doctor being present at four sessions per week at these clinics.
Ante-natal sessions are held weekly at Queen Mary's Hospital for
the examination of women who intend to be confined in the hospital
or at home by the hospital midwives.
During 1937 a total of 6,117 expectant mothers attended
at the ante-natal clinics, and 28,808 attendances were made. The
average attendance per individual in 1937 was 4.7. Table VIII.
shows particulars of the ante-natal attendances for a period of six
years.

Abnormal cases are referred for advice to the local maternity
hospitals, viz. Forest Gate Hospital, Queen Mary's Hospital, and
Plaistow Maternity Hospital. There is no difficulty in obtaining
immediate admission of a case to the ante-natal ward of Forest
Gate Hospital, when in-patient treatment and observation is
considered advisable, and there is close co-operation between the
medical officers of the clinics and the medical superintendent of
Forest Gate Hospital in regard to patients who have attended the
municipal clinics and are later admitted to that hospital for confinement
or treatment.
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