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The following are the terms of the Scheme :—
(a). That the patient be a Stoke Newington resident.
(b). That the medical practitioner immediately informs the
Medical Officer of Health, when he has called in the
services of a consulting obstetrician, giving the name
of the consultant, the name and address of the patient,
the date of the case, the reason, and the result.
(c). That the Borough Council be responsible to the
sulting obstetrician for a fee of £5 5s. per case inclusive,
covering any necessary subsequent visit.
The Scheme is intended to apply to those people who cannot
afford the consultant's ordinary fee.
The Borough Council may reserve to itself the right to ask a
patient to contribute a portion, or the whole of the fee if
in a subsequent investigation it is found that the patient is
capable of so doing. The assessment of each case to be
decided by the Maternity and Child Welfare Committee.
The Scheme above outlined,with the names of the four obstetricians
of approved consulting status who had assented to become
members of the panel, was submitted to the Ministry of Health and
duly approved.
The names and addresses of the obstetrical consultants are
given on page 26.
One consultation under the scheme took place during the year.
Investigation of Cases of Puerperal Fever.—Each case
of Puerperal Fever and Puerperal Pyrexia notified is inquired into
and an endeavour made to ascertain the cause of the condition,
the progress and the result.
In respect of maternal deaths the forms, as prescribed by
the Ministry of Health, are completed and submitted to the Committee
on Maternal Mortality by the Medical Officer of Health.