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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
Mid wives.
The supervision of midwives is under the control of the London
County Council, but there is full co-operation between the midwives
and the Health Visitors. There are 30 midwives practising in the
Borough, of whom nine reside in neighbouring districts.
Nurses.
Arrangements have been made with various nursing associations
in the Borough to attend cases of ophthalmia neonatorum,
measles, whooping-cough, diarrhoea, and pneumonia following
influenza, measles, or whooping-cough, when and as requested
by the Medical Officer of Health at a fee of Is. 3d, per visit.
2,457 such visits were paid during the year.
Clapham is served by the South London District Nursing
Association ; Putney and Roehampton by the nurses appointed by
the Parochial Nursing Associations; and Streatham, Tooting,
Wandsworth, and Balham, by Ranyard Nurses, of whom there are
13 working in the Borough, The northern district of Streatham
is served by the Brixton Nursing Association.
Consultation and Treatment Centres.
As no treatment is given at the various Infant Welfare Centres,
children are sent to suitable hospitals or to private doctors. The
principal diseases found were affections of the eyes, ears, throat
or skin, advanced cases of rickets and the like.
Maternity Homes.
There are 31 private maternity homes in the Borough, nine
of which are carried on by practising midwives.
Wandsworth Borough Memorial Maternity Home.
During the year 398 births occurred in the Borough Memorial
Maternity Home, and the following table, copy of which was forwarded
to the Ministry of Health early in the current year, shows in
detail these cases, the deaths of infants and mothers, the various
complications that occurred and the number of times it was necessary
for the Matron to call in medical assistance, either for the mother
or child.
It is most satisfactory that no deaths of mothers occurred.