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Report of the Medical Officer of Health for 1934.
Midwives and Nursing Arrangements.
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. 57 midwives practise
in the Borough, of whom 20 reside in neighbouring Boroughs.
There are 25 private maternity homes in the Borough, 19
of them being carried on by practising midwives.
Arrangements have been made with various nursing Associations
in the Borough for their nurses to attend cases of
Measles, Whooping Cough, Influenza, Pneumonia, Ophthalmia
Neonatorum, Infantile Diarrhoea, Puerperal Fever and Puerperal
Pyrexia, at my request. A fee of Is. 3d. is paid for each visit
to these cases except in Balham where a special grant of £80 per
annum is paid by the Council to the Ranyard Nurses for the
services of the nurse in this area who was appointed at the request
of the Council in 1920. 237 cases were visited during the
year under these arrangements, and 3,619 visits were made to
them as shown in Table XXXI.

Maternity and Child Welfare Centres.
There are now 12 Infant Welfare Centres in the Borough.
They are voluntary institutions administered by the Committees