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also in attendance, as a maternity nurse. The Council also provides
free, or at reduced cost, sterilised confinement outfits. There
is an income scale in connection with the scheme, and all patients
availing themselves of these benefits must receive ante-natal
supervision. The midwives are invited to accompany their own
patients to the ante-natal clinic, and many do so. In connection
with this scheme, the Council has also authorised the payment of
the fees of an obstetric consultant in cases approved by the
Medical Officer of Health. There are maternity wards in Guy's
Hospital and in St. Olave's Hospital, and a large proportion of
mothers now go into hospital for confinement.

Seventy-seven of the births in group (c) are also included in
group (b), so that there appear to have been only 257 births last
year in which no assistance from a public authority or a voluntary
agency was given.