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- '28
The Fathers' Committee at Brook Road Centre contributed
no less than £20 towards the cost of these services.
At Highgate Centre a Mothers' Social Club has been established,
and meets weekly.
Supply of Milk tu Mothers and Children.—During the year
206 cases have received milk free or at less than cost price. The
sum so expended amounts to £41 Os. lOd.
Maternal Mortality.—Three mothers died as a result of their
confinements—the maternal mortality rate was thus 2.48 per
i,000 births. Two of these deaths were due to puerperal sepsis,
one being the result of a septic miscarriage. All three cases died
in institutions, and none attended the Council's ante-natal consultations.
The Public Health (Notification of Puerperal Fever and
Puerperal Pyrexia) Regulations, 1926, came into operation on
the 1st October, 1926, and provide for the notification by Medical
Practitioners of all oases of puerperal pyrexia which is defined
as "any febrile condition (other than a condition which is required
to be notified as puerperal fever) occurring in a woman within
21 days after child-birth or miscarriage in which a temperature
of 100.4 F. or more has been sustained during a period of 24
hours or has recurred during that period."
The Town Council, in its desire to make some return for
these notifications, has made available for practitioners the
following forms of assistance: —
(a) The services of one or other of the following obstetric
consulting surgeons: —
Dr. J. B. Banister, 39, llarley Street, VV.l. (Telephone
: Mayfair 4943), also Charing Cross and
Queen Charlotte's Hospitals.
Dr. Aleck W. Bourne, 27, llarley Street, W.l.
(Telephone: Langham 4012), also St. Mary's
and Queen Charlotte's Hospitals.
Dr. C. S. Lane-Roberts, 20, Upper Park Road,
Hampstead, N.W.3. (Telephone: Primrose
Hill 8100), also St. Bartholomew's, Royal
Northern and Queen Charlotte's Hospitals.