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The Midwives Act, 1936, was played on the Statute Book on the
31st July, 1936, and the Maternity and Child Welfare Committee proceeded
to hold the initial interviews in November and December. A Scheme has
been formulated which embodies, amongst other points, the employment of
seven Midwives (five permanent and two temporary), and later such further
number as the Council may require, to enable the service of one Midwife to
be available for approximately every 80 cases. This Service should, in the
first instance, be a great benefit to the Midwives, and ultimately tend to
produce a more uniform domiciliary midwifery service for the patients.
Births.
The number of births notified during 1936 were as follows:—
Live births (by midwives) 2,300
„ (by doctors and parents) 359
Stillbirths (by midwives) 107
„ (by doctors) 9
2,775
These figures include births which have taken place in the North
Middlesex County Hospital, both of Edmonton and non-Edmonton residents;
excluding these latter, the notified births of Edmonton residents are :—
Live births (by midwives) 1,114
„ (by doctors and parents) 345
Stillbirths (by midwives) 39
„ (by doctors) 8
1,506
Number of Edmonton babies born in outlying Institutions 172