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(c). That the Borough Council be responsible to the consalting
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 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 22.
Two consultations, under the scheme, took place during the
year. Both were cases of post-partum haemorrhage which resulted
in satisfactory recoveries.
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.