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Sub.Committee was held on the 10th April, 1924. This Sub.Com.
mittee consisted of three medical members, with the Chairman of the
Maternity and Child Welfare Committee as ex.officio member of the
Sub.Committee. All deaths of Hampstead children under two years
of age were carefully investigated. In July, 1924, the Sub.Committee
added to its investigations all still births and maternal deaths; and
later, in June, 1926, considered notified cases of puerperal fever and
puerperal pyrexia.
As a result of the consideration and investigations of the Sub.
Committee many valuable introductions have been made into the
Council's maternity and child welfare scheme, as will be seen from
the following :—
(a) A panel of Consulting Obstetricians was appointed by the
Council in June, 1926, as a result of the Sub.Committee's
recommendation. This matter was first under discussion by
the Sub.Committee in October, 1924.
(b) In September, 1924, the Sub.Committee suggested that leaf—
lets be printed to make more widely known the existence of
our Ante.Natal Clinics, which advice was acted upon.
(c) In June, 1925, the two Creches in the Borough agreed to co—
operate with the Borough Council by reporting to me immedi—
ately any children who appeared ill, or who were refused by
the Creches because of ill.health. This was arranged as a
result of a suggestion by the Sub.Committee.
(d) In June, 1926, in accordance with the Sub.Committee's
request, the Coroner agreed to notify me when an inquest
was to be held on any case where the cause of death related
to child.birth, and also of any inquest on children under two
years of age.
(e) Also in June, 1926, the Sub.Committee suggested that every
patient at the Borough Council's Ante.natal Clinics might be
given a Wasserman Test. It was finally decided, however,
by the Maternity and Child Welfare Committee that such a
scheme would not be advisable.
(f) As a result of the Sub.Committee's recommendation, two of
the Consultants on the panel were appointed, in March, 1929,