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(5) Any agreement reached by the Council and the Board of
Guardians to be for one year only so that at the end of that time
it could be modified if this was found necessary.
(6) A further report and more details and draft, agreement to
be submitted later. In the meantime the Ministry to be informed
of suggested scheme so that general sanction may be given thereto.
On November 4th the Town Clerk was informed by the Clerk to the
Guardians that the Board had approved of the foregoing memorandum
subject to the Council contributing not less than £3 per week for each
bed occupied and a retaining fee of 10s. per week for each bed unoccupied.
The following is the draft agreement which is is proposed should
be signed by the Council and Guardians:—
(1) The Ward to consist of 12 beds, and to be reserved for the
use of maternity patients sent into the Hospital by the Borough
Council, the Council making a payment of £3 per week for each
bed occupied (or a proportionate charge per day), and 10s. per
week retaining fee for each bed unoccupied.
(2) The patients to be admitted by the Medical Superintendent
of the Hospital, on the order of the Medical Officer of Health, without
the intervention of the Relieving Officer.
(3) The nursing staff of the ward should be drawn from nurses
with special qualifications or training in maternity work; and the
Medical Officer responsible for the confinement of the patient, or his
deputy, shall have had special experience and training in midwifery,
the Medical Superintendent being ultimately responsible for the
treatment and care of the patients.
(4) The Medical Officer of Health to have right of access to the
Ward at reasonable hours.
(5) The garments supplied to patients in the Council's beds are
to be differentiated in some way from the garments worn by other
patients in the Hospital in receipt of poor law relief.