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appointed to attend maternity cases, and any woman can have a fully
trained nurse attend her together with her own doctor. A fee is
chargcd the patient, which is in accordance with her means and may be
nothing in very poor cases. The Council guarantee each of the Associations
against the loss, up to £100, on the working of the Maternity
Nurses.
The number of cases thus nursed by the Associations during 1921,
was:—
76 by the Kilburn and West Hampslead District Nursing
Association;
21 by the Hampstead District Nursing Association.
Midwives.—Arrangements have been made with both Nursing
Associations for the provision of a properly skilled and registered
midwife. The Borough Council guarantee each of the Associations
against the loss, up to £100, on the working of the midwives.
The fees charged the patient have been carefully considered in
reference to the midwives' fees prevailing in the district, and have been
graduated £0 as not to undercut the practising midwives. The number
of cases attended by the Midwives of the Associations during 1921
was:—
104 by the Kilburn and West Hampstead District Nursing
Association;
6 by the Hampstead District Nursing Association.
POST-NATAL.
Treatment in a Hospital of complications arising- after
Parturition, whether in the mother or in the infant.
The Borough Council has two endowed beds in the Hampstead
General Hospital, which can be utilised for the purpose of providing
hospital accommodation for the mother.
As regards beds for infants, there are two classes of cases that
may require treatment in a hospital—(a) Children who are ill and have
an ascertained definite disease, and (b) Children who although not
actually suffering from any nameable disease, yet are failing to thrive,
and need to be placed somewhere where skilled and trained supervision
can be exercised. These latter beds have been designated by the name