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Ante-Natal and Post-Natal Services
Six ante-natal sessions are held each week at Clinics in the area,
at which a Departmental medical officer and a health visitor are in
attendance. At these ante-natal Clinics cases are booked for subsequent
hospital confinement. Post-natal examinations are also carried
out at these sessions.
In addition five ante-natal sessions a week are held by midwives
for patients booked for domiciliary confinement.
In view of a decline in the numbers attending ante-natal clinics
the sessions held are now for ante-natal and cytology.
Relaxation and mothercraft classes are held throughout the
Borough at which health education on a personal basis is carried out
by health visitors and midwives.
Attendances at the ante-natal clinics during the year were as
follows:—
Number of women who attended for ante-natal examination 69
Number of women who attended for post-natal examination 35
There were 311 midwives' clinic sessions at which 110 women
attended. The total number of attendances was 663.
Since attendances at these clinics are normally low, the remainder
of the clinic session is devoted to cervical cytology.
Ante-natal relaxation classes are held weekly by health visitors
and midwives at the following clinics: Amity Grove, Church Road,
Grand Drive, Middleton Road, Morden Road, Russell Road, Wide
Way. The numbers of women who attended were:—
Booked for hospital confinement 436
Booked for domiciliary confinement 7
Total 443
The total number of attendances was 1,777.
Premature Infants
The total number of premature infants born in the area during
1972 was 153 compared with 128 in 1971.
Sixteen premature infants died in 1972. This means that 10.4%
of the 153 premature infants born during the year died within a year
as compared with 0.9% for full-term babies.
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