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14. Consultants.
Number of cases in which the services of a consultant have been
provided during the year for a private medical practitioner
under the Council's maternity arrangements:—5.
15. Home Helps.
Number of cases in which home helps have been provided
during the year (the number of cases where this assistance
has been given by Voluntary Agencies, by arrangement
with the Council, should, if possible, be stated
separately):—22—under scheme of the Hampstead
Borough Council.
16. Maternal Deaths.
(a) Number of women who died in, or in consequence of,
childbirth in the area served by the Council for maternity
and child welfare during the year:
(i) from sepsis:—Nil.
(ii) from other causes:—1.
(b) Number of these cases which died:
(i) at home:—Nil.
(ii) in institutions:—1.
17. Administration of Part XIII. of the Public Health (London) Act,
1936.
(a) Number of persons on the Register who were receiving
children for reward at the end of the year:—21.
(b) Number of children on the Register:
(i) at the end of the year:—35.
(ii) who died during the year:—1.
(iii) on whom inquests were held during the year:—Nil.
(c) Number of Infant Protection Visitors at the end of the
year who were:—
(i) Health Visitors:—5.
(ii) Female, other than Health Visitors:—Nil.
(iii) Male:—Nil.
(d) Number of persons (in addition to or in lieu of Visitors
under (c) above) or societies authorised to visit under the
proviso to Section 258 (3) of the Public Health (London)
Act, 1936:—Nil.