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MATERNITY HOSPITAL ACCOMMODATION.
North Middlesex Hospital.—Tlie maternity admissions
from Hornsev to the North Middlesex Hospital increase each
year. Tlie number in 1937 was 206, compared with 172 in 1936.
There is the closest co-operation between the Council's
Ante-natal Medical Officer (Dr. Jean Sutherland) and tlie
obstetric surgeon in charge of the Maternity Department of flic
Hospital.
City of London Maternity Hospital.—An arrangement was
entered into as from April 1st, 1937, for the payment of one
guinea for each Hornsev mother admitted. In the nine months
to December 31st, 1937, the number was 25.
EMERGENCY MATERNITY UNIT
(FLYING SQUAD).
The Maternity Department of North Middlesex Hospital lias
undertaken to provide in cases of urgent necessity (at the request
of the midwife or doctor in attendance) a " flying squad "—that
is, an ambulance with nurses and doctors and equipment capable
of giving immediate treatment in the patient's own home in cases
of emergency. Fortunately no case has arisen for calling the
unit since the arrangement was entered into.
MIDWIFERY SERVICES.
There are 18 Midwives, including the 3 Borough Midwivcs,
notified to the Middlesex County -Council as practising in the
Borough. 9 of whom reside outside the Borough.
The Borough Midwives attended 218 births, in addition to
ante-natal clinics held at the Welfare Centres—Brook Pond
(now the Town Hall), Wightman Road, Church Road, Highgate,
and Coldfall School Clinic. One of the conditions upon which
the Council's Midwife accepts a case is that the expectant mother
shall attend an ante-natal clinic.
A reduction of the midwives' fee was made in 59 necessitous
cases. Two thousand, one hundred and fourtv-four births have
been attended by the Borough Midwife sincc the appointment
was first made in 1922.