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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 at least 71.0 per cent, of the births
registered in that period.
For some years past the Council has had an arrangement with
the London County Council under which women showing signs of
abnormal or multiple pregnancy are referred to Hackney Hospital
for X-ray examination, also an arrangement with the authorities of
the London Chest Hospital, Victoria Park, for the X-ray examination
of expectant mothers referred from the ante-natal clinics to the
Hospital for an expression of opinion upon heart conditions.
Twenty mothers were referred to Hackney Hospital during 1937
for X-ray examination under these arrangements.
A ctinotkera'py Clinics.—There are now two artificial light
clinics, one at the Richmond Road Centre where the equipment
consists of a duo-therapy unit comprising an alpine sun lamp for
general and regional ultra-violet irradiation and a sollux lamp for
general, regional and focal infra-red irradiation, and two alpine
sun lamps for general and regional ultra-violet irradiation. This
clinic is open on three afternoons each week. A doctor is in
attendance at one of these sessions to examine each case and give
instructions as to the treatment to be given by the Health Visitor.
The second clinic is held at the Lower Clapton Road Centre and the
equipment at this Centre consists of one K.B.B. mercury vapour
lamp. This clinic is open on one afternoon each week.
When the Richmond Road Centre was opened in May, 1937,
it was decided that the light treatment of infants and children
should be carried out here and that the treatment of expectant
and nursing mothers should be performed at the Lower Clapton
Road Centre. In view, however, of the distance which has to be
travelled by some patients to the Richmond Road Centre, on which
account some children have failed to complete the course of treatment,
it has been decided to utilise both centres for treatment of
mothers and children, and this arrangement will be in operation in
1938.
The number of new cases seen during the year shows a considerable
increase over previous years as a result of the additional
facilities available at the new Centre in Richmond Road and the
light clinic at this Centre is running to its full capacity.
The following table shows the number of cases and the
conditions treated during the year