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The number of women who attended at the six ante-natal centres
for the first time during the year (701) is equivalent to 22.8 per cent.
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 now held three times weekly at the
Hackney Hospital, and I am informed by the Medical Superintendent
that 860 women attended at the ante-natal clinic for the first time
during 1935, the total attendances numbering 5,352. Of the 851
births notified from the hospital during the year, 723 were to
Hackney women.
Four hundred births to Hackney mothers were notified from the
Salvation Army Mothers' Hospital in 1935.
It may be estimated, therefore, that the number of women
normally resident in the Borough who received attention at antenatal
clinics during the year was equivalent to 60 per cent. 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.