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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Chelsea 1940
Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for Chelsea, 1940
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The London Countv Council is the Authority responsible for the supervision
of midwives and domiciliary midwifery in the Borough.
HOME HELP IN MATERNITY CASES.
Home Helps are employed by the Borough Council for service in the
homes of necessitous women during confinement. A panel scheme
is in operation under which selected women are placed upon a roster
and their services utilised in rotation. This system is found to be very
successful in its working. The following Table No. 23 shows, for the past
two years, the number of applications received for Home Help service,
the number of cases attended, the amount of assessment on cases attended
and the nett expenditure by the Council for this service:-