HC Deb 05 December 1934 vol 295 cc1582-3
42. Miss CAZALET

asked the Minister of Health the number of ante-natal clinics and. the average attendance at each in Dewsbury, Rochdale, Hudders- field, Blackburn, Poplar, Putney, Wands-worth, Shoreditch, West Ham, and the Welsh counties, and the amount of hospital accommodation for maternity in each of these districts?

The following figures relate to the year 1933. They do not include anti-natal clinics or maternity accommodation at voluntary institutions which are not susidised by Local Authority.
Local Authority. Number of Anti-natal Clinics. Average Number of Women per clinic who attended these clinics during the year. Average Number of attendances per clinic during the year. Number of beds provided at Maternity Hospitals and Homes in the Local Authority's area maintained or subsidised by the Council.
Dewabury 2 242 623 13
Rochdale 1 546 2,468 51
Huddersfield 2 340 1,409 28
Blackburn 1 737 2,558 51
Poplar 4 282 964 36*
†Wandsworth 9 54 140 20
Shoreditch 3 182 527 15*
West Ham 9 2,181 5,718 141
Anglesey 2
Brecknockshire 7
Carnarvonshire 13
Cardiganshire 10
Carmarthenshire 1 67 238 6
Denbighshire 2 47 127 11
Flintshire 6 134 423 16
Glamorganshire 35 76 198 58
Merionethshire 5
Monmouthshire 16 85 175 19
Montgomeryshire 18
Pembrokeshire 9
Radnorshire 3
* These beds are in hospitals provided by the London County Council.
† Separate figures for Putney (which is included in the Metropolitan Borough of Wandsworth) are not available.