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43.
The attendances at the Ante-Natal Clinics showed
a considerable increase over those of 19.28, and were as
follows:—
At 92, Greyhound Road—2 sessions weekly.
Number of women who attended 342
Number of attendances 1435
At 170, Wandsworth Bridge Road—1 session weekly.
Number of women who attended 165
Number of attendances 523
Nine hundred and eighty-six home visits were made
by Health Visitors in connection with Ante-Natal work.
These figures include certain cases that were in attendance
at various maternity hospitals, and who were visited
at their homes by the Fulham staff at the request of the
Almoners of these Institutions.
Maternal Mortality .
Closely associated with the question of Ante-Natal
care is the question of maternal mortality. It is the
considered view of most authorities on this subject, that
the absence of such care on a wide scale is one of the
chief predisposing causes of the still very serious deathrate
in connection with childbirth; and there is a growing
public opinion in favour of developing this side of
public health work, as a means of reducing the number
of maternal deaths at, or soon after, confinement.
The investigation called for by a special memorandum
of the Ministry of Health in October, 1928, requiring
careful enquiry into the cause of death in all cases
in which women may have died during pregnancy, at
childbirth, or in the puerpcrium (hitherto dealt with by
the Medical Officer of Health) have now been transferred
to me, in order that they may be co-ordinated with the
intimately connected work of the Maternity and Child
Welfa re Department.