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Sessions attended.
At Ante-Natal Clinics 212
Relaxation Classes 330
Developmental Clinics 18
Child Health Centre Sessions 1,885
General Practitioners' Clinics 232
Toddlers' Clinics 237
Parentcraft Classes:
Day Sessions 60
Evening Sessions 94
Fathercraft Classes 27
Geriatric Clinics 102
Vaccination and Immunisation Sessions 87
Cytology Clinics 13
Co-ordinating Conferences 13
Case Conferences 22
Screening tests of hearing of young
children 168
Meetings with outside bodies 365
Sessions with students 236
Total 4,101
MIDWIFERY
Staff
As at 31st December, 1969, the staff consisted of:—
1 Non Medical Supervisor of Midwives (also acts as Superintendent
of the Home Nursing Service).
1 Deputy Non-Medical Supervisor of Midwives (also acts as
Deputy Superintendent of the Home Nursing Service).
7 Whole-time District Midwives.
2 District Nurse/Midwives.
Introductory
The number of home confinements has continued its downward
trend (217 compared with 321 for 1968), but with an increase of
99 planned and unplanned 48-hour discharges from hospital, there
has been no overall decrease in work.
Midwives have continued to obtain blood samples for the testing
of phenylketonuria by the Guthrie method for babies delivered at
home or discharged from hospital before the sixth day.
Organisation
2 midwives are housed at 28/30 Kings Road, Wimbledon,
S.W.19.
1 at 'The Croft', Mitcham.
1 in a flat leased from the Greater London Council, and the
remaining three in their own homes.
Two District Nurse/Midwives relieve full-time Midwives during
holidays, refresher courses, sickness, etc. All midwives are motorists
using their own cars or one supplied by the authority.
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