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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
It was found that in 1,812 of the births doctors had been in
attendance, while in 1,526 the services of midwives had been utilised.
468 infants were born in hospitals and other institutions, and 413
in the Council's Maternity Home. Six mothers employed
unregistered women.
Midwives and Nursing Arrangements.
The supervision of midwives is under the control of the London
County Council, but there is full co-operation between the midwives
and the Health Visitors. 39 midwives practise in the Borough,
of whom seven reside in neighbouring Boroughs.
There are 30 private maternity homes in the Borough, 14 of
them being carried on by practising midwives.
Arrangements have been made with various nursing Associations
in the Borough to attend cases of measles, whooping cough,
pneumonia, ophthalmia neonatorum, and infantile diarrhoea, when
and as requested by the Medical Officer of Health, at a fee of 1/3
per visit. 95 cases were visited during the year under these arrangements,
and 1,862 visits were made to them as shown by the following
Table. Half of these visits were to cases of ophthalmia.