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In addition to the foregoing the following are the suggestions for
admitting patients to the beds:—
Mothers seeking admission to the Wards will have to contribute
according to the fixed income scale submitted herewith:—
The arrangements for admission to the beds should be made through
the Maternity and Child Welfare Committee, on the following lines:—
(1) Expectant mothers attending Poplar Infant Welfare Centres
must make application for admission to the Maternity Ward to the
Health Visitor at the Infant. Welfare Centre they attend.
(2) Expectant mothers not in attendance at Infant Welfare
Centres must make application at a Centre or apply to the Medical
Officer of Health, Public Health Offices, Bow Road, E.3.
The application to be made during the third month of pregnancy
and the payments completed before admission to the Ward.
(3) After the printed application form has been filled in, the
patient will be referred to the ante-natal doctor at the Infant Welfare
Centre of the area in which she resides for report and recommendation.
The doctor in charge of the ante-natal Clinic, after
examining the applicant, will make observations in the space provided
on the application form, and, after such further enquiries
as may be indicated, the form will be sent to the Medical Officer of
Health.
Any patient who does not desire to attend a Welfare Centre
may have the ante-natal report filled in by her own physician.
(4) After review by the Medical Officer of Health, the applications
will be placed before the Maternity and Child Welfare
Committee, who will recommend admission to the Ward in suitable
cases.
(5) The clinical reports of the Medical Officers of the Maternity
and Child Welfare Centres, or Private Physicians, and containing
the medical facts of the case, will be made out in duplicate, and
one copy will be sent to the Medical Officer in Charge of the
Maternity beds, who will return the report to the Medical Officer
of Health with his notes after the confinement has taken place.