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38
Institutions
outside the
Borough of
Lambeth
Westminster Hospital 43
Charing Cross Hospital 27
St. George's Hospital 16
Dulwich Hospital 59
Middlesex Hospital 4
Elizabeth Garratt Anderson Hospital 4
Royal Free Hospital 4
Guy's Hospital 1 304
St. Giles' Hospital 135
St. Mary's Hospital 1
Queen Charlotte's Hospital 2
St. Mary Abbott Hospital 1
St. Stephen's Hospital 1
Hammersmith Hospital 2
St. James' Hospital 3
,South London Hospital 1
(v) Midwives. By arrangement with the County Council, the
Local Supervising authority under the Midwives Acts (1902-1936).
midwives practising in the borough can send their patients prior to
confinement to the ante-natal clinics at the various Lambeth
Welfare Centres for medical examination, and receive a written
report of the case from the Medical Officer. Certain midwives sent
all or nearly all their cases to the Ante-Natal Clinics for medical
examination, but the great majority failed to take advantage,
either for themselves or their patients.
The number of reports sent to midwives in response to the
applications received was 47, as opposed to 25 last year, 8 in 1934,
61, in 1933, 64 in 1932, 83 in 1931, and 149 in 1930.
Seeing that some seven to eight hundred confinements conducted
by midwives take place yearly, the poor response of the midwives is
significant, and may be compared with the present attendance of
foster mothers at the Welfare Centres now that infant lifeprotection
measures are supervised by the Borough Council in
place of the County Council (See page 36).
Applications for assistance towards the payment of the midwife
were received from 70 expectant mothers, of which 14 were
emergency cases. The cost to the Council was £56 18s. Od.
Compensation at the rate of 10s. per case is paid to those midwives
whose cases after booking are confined on the advice of the clinic
medical officer in institutions. Three applications were received
from midwives during the year.