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During the year 25 women attended for this examination,
as compared with 25 last year.
Post-Natal Clinic
A Post-Natal Clinic is held at. Church Road Clinic each
month. Leaflets giving them information about this clinic and the
purpose for which it, is intended are given to the patients when
they leave Woodlands Maternity Home and to the patients attending
the various ante-natal clinics. Post-natal examinations of
patients confined at Woodlands are made at the Woodlands
Clinic; 101 cases attended during the year.
The total number of women who attended the post-natal
clinics at Church Road Clinic was 90. the average attendance
being 7 7.
Home Helps
The demand for the services of home helps has increased
during the year. The number of part-time workers available has
gradually decreased, in spite of higher rates of pay. The Council
has approved the appointment of two full-time persons, and at the
end of the year one full-time and one regular part-time home
helps were being employed. Thirty-five mothers took advantage
of this service. It has proved more satisfactory for the patient
to find her own home help, if possible, usually a relative. The
Council pay her wages, and claim re-imbursement according to
scale from the patient.
The scale of assistance for home helps is the same as that
adopted by the Surrey County Council.
Ministry of Health Circular 179/44 was considered by the
Maternity and Child Welfare Committee, who decided that any
extension of the Home Help and Domestic Help Scheme so as to
include aged persons must be deferred until sufficient home helps
are available under the scheme for giving assistance to expectant
and nursing mothers.
WOODLANDS MATERNITY HOME.
The number of cases admitted during the year was 265. 49
more than in 1944,