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Provision of Midwives.
The Borough Council has a scheme whereby the local district
Nursing Associations provide for their nurses to attend confinements.
During 1932, the midwives of the Kilburn and West Hampstead
District Nursing Association attended 148 cases, whilst those of the
Hampstead District Nursing Association attended 49 cases.
Of the 197 cases, 84 were attended in the company of a medical
practitioner.
Patients are charged by the Associations according to their
means; in very poor cases no charge is made.
Accouchement Outfits.
The Council resolved on 30th April, 1931, to obtain a supply of
Accouchements Outfits, and to distribute such outfits to the patients
through the midwives or maternity nurses, who were asked to notify
their patients when booking for confinements that application for
such outfits should be made to the Medical Officer of Health at the
Town Hall.
During the year the Council resolved not to purchase a further
supply of outfits as the whole of the first consignment had been
supplied to persons referred to the Council by the District Nursing
Associations, and requested the Nursing Associations to make their
own arrangements for the future supply of the outfits to their patients.
Infantile Mortality.
The infantile mortality rate for the Borough of Hampstead for
the year 1932 was 54. This compares with 61 for the previous year
and 54.6 for the 10 years ended 1931.