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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
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 23.
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.
Removal of Infirm Persons in Certain Cases.
By Section 28, of the London County Council (General Powers)
Act, 1928, power is given to remove infirm and diseased persons,
living under insanitary conditions, to institutions where they can
receive adequate care and medical attention.
Frequently such persons are amenable, by persuasion, to enter
a local hospital but sometimes it is necessary to make application
to a Magistrate for a Detention Order, which provides authority
for such person to be maintained in an institution for a period of
three months.
It is necessary to apply to the Magistrate for an extension to
the original order at three monthly intervals.
No new cases under this section of the Act had to be dealt
with during the year, but extension orders were applied for and
granted in the case of two aged and infirm persons who had been
removed to the Hackney Institution in July, 1933.