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Maternity and, Child Welfare. 69
Obstetric Consultant Service.
This service has been extended during the year. Since the
Public Health (Notification of Puerperal Fever and Puerperal
Pyrexia) Regulations came into force in 1926, the Council has
made provision for an Obstetric Consultant to be available to meet
medical practitioners in consultation when they require a second
opinion on a woman who has developed a complication during the
lying-in period. It has now been decided to make the services
of the consultant available to meet practitioners as required at any
stage during pregnancy, at confinement or in the lying-in period.
The fee paid for each consultation is three guineas.
During the year the consultant has been called on 11
occasions.
Hospital Treatment for Ante-Natal Women.
The Council has made arrangements with the Board of
Management of the South London Hospital for Women, Clapham
Common, for ante-natal cases who require hospital treatment for
the prevention and treatment of any complication of pregnancy,
to be admitted to the hospital, at a charge of £1 10s. Od. per week.
These arrangements have been completed during the year
under review. No cases have yet been admitted.
Midwives and Nursing Arrangements.
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 1s. 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. 184 cases were visited during
the year under these arrangements, and 2,943 visits were made.
Full particulars are given in Table XXXII.