View report page

Maternity aud Child Welfare. 69
Hospital Treatment for Ante-Natal Women.
The Council has made arangements 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. Three cases have 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 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. 355 cases were visited during
the year under these arrangements, and 4,925 visits were made.
Full particulars are given in Table XXXII.