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The Council have given serious consideration to the question of
maternal mortality, and for some years past arrangements have been
made with a Consulting Obstetrician to visit cases of Puerperal Fever
and Puerperal Pyrexia in consultation with general practitioners (see
page 86).
The arrangements made with three Consulting Obstetricians for their
services to be available at the request of a general practitioner attending
any midwifery case which presented special difficulty or abnormality at
or after the confinement, were continued for 12 months from 1st April,
1935.
(During 1935 Consulting Obstetricians were called in to two cases.)
Special Ante-Natal Consulting Clinic—St. Andrew's Hospital.
The number of patients seen at the Ante-Natal Consultation Clinic
was as follows:—
(a) Referred by private practitioners 10
(b) Referred by clinic medical officers 25
35
Infantile Mortality.—The infantile mortality rate (46) is the lowest
recorded in the Borough.
Maternity cases—Conveyance by Ambulance.—The London County
Council notified the Council that on and after the Ist April, 1935, the
London Ambulance Service would be available, without charge, throughout
the day and night, for the conveyance from any address within the
County of London to hospitals or municipal institutions within the
County of London of parturient women who had made arrangements for
their admission to such hospital or municipal institution. This does not
affect the procedure regarding urgent cases.
The agreement between the London County Council and Poplar
Borough Council, so far as it relates to removal of patients to maternity
homes outside the County of London, is not affected.
During the March quarter, 1935, 2 patients were removed at a cost
to the Borough Council of 15s.
Transfer of Powers (London) Order, 1933.—Under the above Order,
which came into operation on 1st April, 1933, the duties regarding Infant
Life Protection were transferred from the London County Council to the
Borough Council.