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Co-ordination of Maternity Services
The close co-operation between the doctors, health visitors and midwives at the
ante-natal clinics, as well as that between the midwives and the general practitioner
obstetricians, has been maintained.
Maternity Services
Total live births notified as West Ham births during the year 1957 was 2,66l and of
these 11% were born at home and 89% born in hospital.
Domiciliary births within the Borough 298 )
Domiciliary births outside the Borough 2 )
Hospital births within the Borough 2,180 )
Hospital births outside the Borough l8l )
2,66l

All the domiciliary midwives undertake the training of pupils. In 7 of the 298
live births in their own homes the midwife acted as maternity nurse.
Medical aid was summoned in 134 cases. In 89 of these help was required for the
mother only, in 25 help was required for the baby only, and in the remaining 20 cases help
was summoned on account of both mother and baby.
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