Annual report : 1934 / Clapham Maternity Hospital.

  • Clapham Maternity Hospital (London, England)
Date:
1934
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Annual report : 1934 / Clapham Maternity Hospital. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    GENERAL INFORMATION Management—This Hospital was opened in 1889 for the accommodation of maternity patients of the poorer classes who desire to be attended by doctors of their own sex. Its existence also affords to women medical students and candidates for the C.M.B. examinations the oppor¬ tunity of training in obstetrics under women, who are doctors, not midwives only. Nursing—The nursing of the patients is in the care of a Matron, who is a fully-trained Nurse and experienced Midwife, and under her, women are instructed in Monthly Nursing. Conditions for the Admission of Patients. In-patients—Patients are admitted to this Hospital without letters ” on the payment of a charge proportionate to their means and always under cost. viz. £2 2s. weekly. Private patients are received in separate rooms at 3 or 4 guineas per week and pay a medical fee. Free Cases—A certain proportion of “ free cases ” and re¬ duced payment ” cases are received when recommended through the Hospital Sunday Fund. The patients received are of two classes :— 1. Married women are admitted from any part of London or the Country. 2. Unmarried patients. These are received in cases of first confinement only, either from Rescue Homes or from the homes of near relatives, resident in the district, who make themselves responsible to receive mother and child back after fourteen days.