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The number of women who attended at the six ante-natal centres
for the first time during the year (823) is equivalent to 26 5 percent,
of the total births registered in that period. It should be remembered,
however, that a large proportion of the births to Hackney
women occur in hospitals, principally in the Salvation Army
Mothers' Hospital, Clapton, and the London County Council's local
general hospital (Hackney Hospital). Women who book to enter
these hospitals for confinement, with the exception of a few who are
admitted as emergency cases, are referred to the ante-natal clinics
established at the hospitals.
Ante-natal sessions are held twice weekly at the Hackney
Hospital, and I am informed by the Medical Superintendent that
898 women attended at the ante-natal clinic for the first time during
1934, the total attendances numbering 4,434. Of the 863 births
notified from the hospital during the year, 754 were to Hackney
women.
Four hundred and seventeen births to Hackney mothers were
notified from the Salvation Army Mothers' Hospital in 1934
It may be estimated, therefore, that the number of women
normally resident in the Borough who received ante-natal attention
during the year was equivalent to 65 percent, of the births registered
in that period.
Artificial Sunlight Clinic.—An Artificial Sunlight Clinic is
held weekly upon the premises of the Infant Welfare Centre at
No. 28, Lower Clapton Road. The cases treated are principally
infants and children under the age of five years who are suffering
from nutritional disorders.