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Whooping Cough and Epidemic Diarrhoea. In October, the scheme was extended
to include cases of maternity complications. The payments made to this Association,
it the rate of one shilling per visit, (increased to Is. 3d. per visit in October 1936)
were:—
Under Maternity and Child Welfare£51 2 3
Under Public Health £19 5 9f
Total£70 8 0
†
Includes also nursing of pneumonia (adult).
Contributions under arrangements for maternity cases admitted to beds at
Maternity Hospitals, the contributions being a grant of 10s per case, were: City
London Maternity Hospital, £44 10s. Od.; Royal Free Hospital, £6 10s. Od.;
University College Hospital (added to scheme April 1st 1936), £16 0s. Od. In
addition to these, cases of Ophthalmia Neonatorum and Marasmus are admitted
to the London County Council's Hospital (St Margaret's), Camden Town, N.W.
and Queen Mary's Hospital, Carshalton.
GRANTS TO MIDWIVES.
(i) " Necessitous cases " confined at home.
(ii)Where Medical Officer of a Centre has intervened in sending the midwife's
patient to hospital.
The conditions applicable to these grants were fully set out in last year's report
p.22.
(1) No application for such compensation was made by any certified
midwife during this year.
(2) Two claims of a certified midwife were paid by the Council during this
year under this section.
SPECIAL REPORTS.
During 1936, among other special matters reported on to the appropriate
Committees were:—
March 10, July 14 and October 2.—Reports on" Dinners to Necessitous
Expectant and Nursing Mothers."
July 9.—Report on "Children under school Age" with special reference
to the Minister of Health's Circular of May 1936.
October 6.—Report on "Sites for Nursery Schools."
December 8.—Special report on a Convalescent Home which was available
at St. Leonard's-on-Sea, which was eventually found not suitable for the purposes
of the Council.