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Hampstead and North St. Pancras Day Nursery.
This Day Nursery occupies commodious premises at 27 & 29,
Pond Street. There are 50 places in the Nursery for children under
5 years of age. The total number of attendances made during 1935
was 10,627. The Nursery is controlled by a Voluntary Committee
and the Borough Council contributed £543 during 1935. By an
arrangement with this Voluntary Committee the Borough Council
rents a portion of the premises for the purpose of an Ante-natal
Clinic.
Provision of Midwives.
The Borough Council has a scheme whereby the local district
Nursing Associations provide for their nurses to attend confinements.
Patients are charged by the Associations according to their means; in
very poor cases no charge is made.
During 1935, the midwives of the Kilburn and West Hampstead
District Nursing Association attended 125 cases, whilst those of the
Hampstead District Nursing Association attended 32 cases. Of the
157 cases, 68 were attended in the company of a medical practitioner.
Compensation to Midwives.
The Council compensates private midwives, other than those
attached to the District Nursing Associations, Maternity Homes or
Hospitals, for loss of cases referred by the Ante-natal Clinics to
hospital for confinement at the rate of 10s. 6d. per case, subject to
the following conditions:—(a) the patient is required to confirm the
statement that she had engaged the midwife to attend her confinement
and had been referred by the midwife to the clinic; (b) the Medical
Officer of the clinic certifies that she advised the patient to be confined
in a Hospital or Home; (c) no payment is made to the midwife where
the patient herself has applied to be confined in a Hospital or Home.
Maternal Mortality and Morbidity.
One woman died in consequence of child-birth during 1935. This
represents a maternal mortality rate of 1 per 1,000 births as compared
with 414 and nil for the preceding two years.
Consulting Obstetricians.
The Council has inaugurated a scheme whereby the services of
obstetricians of consultant status are available to all medical