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(c) That the Borough Council be responsible to the consulting
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 25.
No consultations, 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.