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occasion, 14 of them on two occasions, 2 on
three occasions, 1 on six occasions, and 1 on
seven occasions.
OBSTETRICAL CONSULTANTS.
The Council has a panel of three Obstetric
Consultants, who may be called in by any general
practitioner in any midwifery case which presents
difficulty or abnormality. One consultation took
place during the year.
HOME HELPS.
At the end of the year, there were 12 Home Helps
on the panel, with 6 other women acting occasionally
as relief helps. During the year, Home Helps were
arranged for in 163 cases. In 67 cases the mother
paid a contribution for the services rendered.
This service, like many branches of Public Health
work, has gone on quietly for the past eight years
doing much good with little fuss. We do not receive
many unsolicited testimonials from the public for
our work but those which do come are appreciated.
A thankful husband thus expresses himself:
" I consider it my duty to express my keen appreciation
of the timely and needed help given by your Centre in the
after effects of my wife's confinement may I add
that the services rendered by Mrs. have exceeded
all expectations. Nothing has been a trouble to her. She
has been a genuine mother to the children and remarkably
clean."
• There is no direct tangible evidence that we can
adduce of the actual benefits which Bethnal Green
mothers have derived from being relieved of their
house work after confinement. It is only the gynæcologists
at the General and Women's Hospitals,
who have to deal with the results of the precipitate
return to the arduous labours and anxieties of a working
woman's home, who can estimate the healthsaving
value of the Home Helps Service. During