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with the three hospital authorities, viz, St. Bartholomew's Hospital,
City of London Maternity Hospital and the Royal Northern Hospital,
was held to discuss the modifications necessary. The new agreement
provides for the following :—
1. Notification to the Medical Officer of Health of all cases
booking for confinement, with the consent of the mother.
2. Submission of the following reports :—
(a) Report on Confinement (Domiciliary and In-patient
cases).
(b) Post-natal Reports.
3. The provision of ante-natal and special post-natal clinics
which shall be open for L.C.C. midwives' cases as well as
for cases booked at the Institutions.
4. The provision of consultative ante-natal clinics, to which
patients may be referred by a private practitioner or from
the Borough Council's ante-natal clinics.
5. The provision of ante-natal beds for patients.
6. The provision of beds for cases desiring admission to
hospital for confinement, or who should be admitted to
hospital by reason of some complication or bad home
conditions.
The Council agreed to contribute the sum of 5s. to the hospital
concerned in respect of each Finsbury case attending the ante-natal
and/or post-natal clinics under the Scheme, and a sum of £4 4s. od.
towards the cost of maintenance of each case admitted to hospital
for confinement. If a patient is retained in hospital for 14 days or
longer after confinement an additional sum of 10s. 6d. is paid towards
the increased cost of maintenance.
Below I have indicated an analysis of the confinements of
Finsbury mothers last year at the three hospitals under the Scheme :—
In-Patients :
St. Batholomew's Hospital 112
City of London Maternity
Hospital 64
Royal Northern Hospital 3
179