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Child :—
Discharging eyes 23
Prematurity 10
Spina bifida 1
Unsatisfactory condition of infant 16
Miscellaneous causes 3
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By agreement, dated 1st January, 1924, with the Plaistow Maternity Hospital
and District Nurses' Home, the Council annually subsidise the Hospital on any
deficit from £300 in respect of the district midwifery work of their midwives in
Barking. Their takings for 1937 amounted to £170 2s. 0d., leaving a balance
payable to the Hospital by the Council of £129 18s. 0d.
During the year 1937 there were 1,057 maternity cases in the district. 120
of these were conducted by the Plaistow Maternity Charity, 411 of them were
conducted by your own midwives at Upney Hospital, 174 were conducted by the
midwives of the Salvation Army Organisation, leaving 352 which were dealt with
by medical practitioners, private midwives or otherwise.
(d) Midwives Act, 1936.—Pursuant to Section 1 of the Midwives Act, 1936, the
Council submitted their scheme to the Ministry of Health in January, 1937.
For the purpose of the scheme the Borough was divided into four areas.
The Becontree South Area included that part of the Barking section of the
Becontree Estate, south of the District Railway Line, and the scheme provided for
the employment of two midwives by the Salvation Army, who for many years
have maintained a centre within this area, from which their midwives have
practised.
The Becontree North Area included that part of the Barking section of the
Becontree Estate, north of the District Railway Line, and to practise in this area
three midwives were to be directly employed by the Barking Council.
In the Barking Abbey Area, which included the Abbey, Eastbury and Gascoigne
wards, except that part of the Borough between the District Railway Line and the
Tilbury Railway Line, two midwives were to be employed by the Plaistow Maternity
Hospital and District Nurses' Home, whose midwives have for some long time, been
practising in the Borough, and [(possibly)] one midwife was to be employed directly
by the Council.