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MATERNITY HOSPITAL ACCOMMODATION.
North Middlesex Hospital,—The maternity admissions
from Hornsey to the North Middlesex Hospital numbered 127
in 1039, as compared with 167 in 1938.
There is the closest co-operation between the Council's
Ante-natal Medical Officers 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 Hornsev mother admitted. During 1939 the
number was 74, as compared with 56 in 1938.
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 doctor or midwife in attendance) a "flying squad"—that
is, an ambulance with doctors and nurses and equipment capable
of giving immediate treatment in the patient's own home in cases
of emergency. Fortunately no ease has arisen for calling the
unit since the arrangement was entered into.
MIDWIFERY SERVICES.
There were 22 Midwives, including the 3 Borough Midwives,
notified to the Middlesex County Council as practising in the
Borough. 14 of whom reside outside the Borough.
The Borough Midwives attended 255 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 Midwives accept
a case is that the expectant mother shall attend an ante-natal
clinic.
Two thousand six hundred and sixty-three births have been
attended by the Borough Midwives since the appointment of a
Midwife was first made in 1922.