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visits. She also conducts a regular weekly session
for ante-natal care of her patients, and assists in the
work of the Welfare Centre.
It is gratifying to record that 36 of the mothers
delivered by the Borough Midwife during the year
had been previously attended by her, 9 of them on two
previous occasions, and one on three occasions.
OBSTETRICAL CONSULTANTS.
The Council has a panel of five Obstetric
Consultants, who may be called in by any general
practitioner in any midwifery case which presents
difficulty or abnormality. No consultations took place
during the year.
HOME HELPS.
The Home Helps scheme, while it has passed the
experimental stage, still requires to be better known in
order to reach its full measure of usefulness. At the
end of the year, there were 8 Home Helps on the panel.
Since the scheme was inaugurated in March, 1928, 109
mothers have booked Home Helps and the service is
now rapidly extending. During the year, there were
actually 65 engagements of Home Helps, in 44 cases
the mother paying a contribution for the services
rendered.
MATERNITY OUTFITS.
The first complete year's experience of the Councils
arrangements for the provision of a sterile accouchement
outfit for the use of expectant mothers has
demonstrated its practical usefulness, but it is not yet
sufficiently well known in the Borough. Outfits were
issued as follows:- Free, 53; Half-price, 19; Cost
price, 24. Total, 96.
This service is not available, owing to the restricted
approval of the former Minister of Health, to mothers
attended from Hospitals.