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MATERNITY HOSPITAL ACCOMMODATION.
North Middlesex Hospital.—The maternity admissions
from Hornsey to the North Middlesex Hospital numbered 167
in 1988, as compared with 206 in 1937.
There is the closest co-operation between the Council's
Ante-natal Medical Officer (Dr. Jean Sutherland) and the
obstetric surgeon in charge of the Maternity Department of the
Hospital.
City of London Maternity Hospital.—An arrangement was
entered into as from April 1st, 1937, for the payment of one
guinea for each Hornsey mother admitted. During 1938 the
number was 56.
EMERGENCY MATERNITY UNIT
(FLYING SQUAD).
The Maternity Department of North Middlesex Hospital has
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 19 Mid wives, including the 3 Borough Midwives,
notified to the Middlesex County Council as practising in the
Borough, 11 of whom reside outside the Borough.
The Borough Midwives attended 264 births, in addition to
ante-natal clinics held at the Welfare Centres, 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 74 necessitous
cases. Two thousand, four hundred and eight births have been
attended by the Borough Midwives since the appointment of a
Midwife was first made in 1922.