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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.
During the year such compensation was made in two cases.
Maternal Mortality and Morbidity.
Three women died in consequence of child-birth during 1936.
This represents a maternal mortality rate of 29 per 1,000 births as
compared with 1.0 and 4.14 for the preceding two years.
Consulting Obstetricians.
Under a scheme of the Borough Council the services of
obstetricians of consultant status are available to all medical practitioners
in cases of difficulty or abnormality occurring among Hampstead
mothers. The following are the consultants:—
Basden, Margaret, M.D., F.R.C.S., 114, Harley Street, W.l, and
26, Thurlow Road, N.W.3.
Brown, R. Christie, M.S., F.R.C.S., 40, Harley Street, W.l, and
292, Finchley Road, N.W.3.
Gray, Arthur O., M.D., F.R.C.S., 114a, Harley Street, W.l.
Rivett, L. C., M.C., F.R.C.S., 118, Harley Street, W.l, and
3, Hanover Terrace, Regent's Park, N.W.1.
White, Norman, M.D., F.R.C.S., 19, Queen Anne Street, W.l,
and 55, Fitzroy Road, N.W.1.
During the year the services of the Consultants were called for
under this scheme in three cases. Two were cases of difficult confinement—the
mothers were removed to Hospitals, both children were
stillborn, but the mothers made good recovery. The other was a
case of puerperal pyrexia—child born alive—the mother remained at
home and recovered.
In one case a nominal charge was made to the patient towards the
cost of the services of the Consultant, the full fee being paid by the
Borough Council in the other two instances.
Invalid Children's Aid Association.
The Hampstead Branch of this Association meets at 51, Howitt
Road and valuable help is given to boys up to 14 years of age and