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Housing of
midwives
Accommodation for domiciliary midwives, as recommended by the Midwives
Salaries (Rushcliffe) Committee, continued to be provided by the Council. On 31st
December, 1950, 63 midwives were housed in 57 houses or flats, of which 36 were
provided by the Council and 21 taken on lease or on licence from either borough
councils or direct from private owners. The metropolitan regional hospital boards
continued to co-operate, when requested, in arranging for temporary accommodation
to be provided for midwives in hospital staff quarters.
Drugs and
iressings
Up to 31st March, 1950, drugs and dressings for the Council's midwives were
by arrangement with the metropolitan hospital regional boards supplied from
hospital dispensaries. Since then, drugs and dressings required have been supplied
to the Council's midwives and to some district nursing associations direct through the
chief officer of supplies.
Agency
organisations

The number of midwives employed by these agencies on 31st December, 1950,
was :—
Supervisory Midwives
staff
Hospital district service 16 58
(including 2 part-time
midwives)
District nursing associations 9 28
(including 14 part-time
midwives and supervisory
staff)
Payments to
District
Nursing
Associations
and Hospitals
In addition, a small number of part-time midwives and some full-time staff of
the district nursing associations did part-time midwifery and part-time home nursing.
Payments to district nursing associations under section 23 of the National
Health Service Act, 1946 continued to be merged in the grants made to them for
home nursing services provided under section 25 of the Act.
The rate of payment to hospitals providing midwifery services on behalf of the
Council has continued throughout the year at £7 13s. 4d. a confinement, but in
December a request was received for an increase in the case rate. This was under
consideration at the end of the year.
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