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made by the Baths and Washhouses Committee is 5d. per unit. It was
resolved that the patients for whom the Centre was to be available
were to be children, with preference to children from the clinics. The
Council empowered the Medical Officer of Health to accept adult
patients at his discretion in exceptional cases, though this was not to
interfere with the preference for children. In actual practice cases are
only admitted through the Infant Welfare Centres, the Medical Officer
of Health, and Maternity and Child Welfare Medical Officer. One or
two adults, mainly nursing mothers in whom the supply of breast milk
has not been satisfactory, have been admitted. Visitors are admitted to
the Centre at the discretion of the Medical Officer. In this connection,
students from the University have been given short addresses and
demonstrations, while from time to time a few citizens have been shown
round and had matters explained to them. The cost for the year ending
31st March, 1927 is as follows:—
£ s. d.
Salaries 321 16 9
Current 20 0 3
Carbons, Brushes, &c. 10 1 6
Stationery 1 19 6
Thermometers 2 14 0
Furnishings 5 14 6
£ s. d.
Goggles 3 7 8
Scale Weights 0 1 9
Clock Winding 0 8 0
Building Dept 0 1 8
Petty Cash Items 5 8 9
Total £371 14 4
Babies' Home, Albury Street.
The Babies' Home, Albury Street, is useful in the treatment of
dietetic and sub-acute cases. The Council subsidised eight cots at £50
a year each, but later in 1926 it decided to pay £2 a week or part of a
week, per case for any cases sent in by the Council's Medical Officers.
The total number of new cases sent in during the year 1926 was thirty.
The Public Health (Notification of Puerperal Fever and
Puerperal Pyrexia) Regulations, 1926.
These regulations, dated the 31st July, 1926, came into force on
October 1st. Circular 722 accompanied the Regulations.
The effect of these new Regulations is that any general practitioner
may ask the Council to provide a specialist's opinion in any case of
temperature over 100.4° F., in the mother, occurring within 21 days
after childbirth.