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The City Council has by agreement entered into an arrangement with
two hospitals for the admission of certain patients, viz.:—
(a) With St. George's Hospital for the admission and treatment of
maternity patients.
(b) With Westminster Hospital for—
(i) The provision of maternity beds for patients sent through
the Council's maternity and child welfare centres.
(ii) The services of midwives to attend necessitous women in their
own homes.
(iii) The provision of skilled obstetric assistance to medical
practitioners in difficult cases of midwifery occurring in
the patients' own homes.
(iv) The provision of skilled medical assistance to midwives in
difficult cases.
(c) With the Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital, Golden Square, for the
treatment of ear, nose and throat affections in children under
school age referred thereto from the Council's Infant Welfare
Centre at Marshall Street.
(d) With the Infants Hospital, Vincent Square—
(i) For the treatment of ear, nose and throat affections in
children under school age sent from the Council's Infant
Welfare Centres at Bessborough Street and Ebury Bridge
and the Westminster Health Society's Centre in Marsham
Street.
(ii) Whereby the hospital acts as a consulting centre for cases
sent from the Council's and the Health Society's Centres.
MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE.
The statutory powers with which the Council is endowed for providing
services under this heading have enabled a comprehensive welfare scheme
to be established. Before the consideration of details it might be of
advantage to summarize these services as follows. They are:—
(1) Care of the expectant mother by—
(a) Visits of advice by health visitors.
(b) Attendance at ante-natal clinics under the care of a woman
gynaecologist.
(c) Confinement at home by a midwife.
(d) Services of an obstetric consultant in case of difficulty.