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with the Council's scale. The number of admissions
to the hospital are limited to 36 in any one
month.
District Maternity Service.—Pursuant to the
Midwives Act, 1936 you have appointed five midwives
to practise in the district, and you have
entered into agreements with the Plaistow Maternity
Hospital and District Nurses' Home and the
Salvation Army in order to establish an adequate
service of domiciliary midwifery throughout the
Borough. Application for the services of the midwives
may be made at the midwives' homes or at
the Ante-Natal Clinics, and the charges are in
accordance with the Council's scale.
Consultations.—There is a Specialist-Consultant
available for consultations in cases of abnormal
pregnancy, puerperal pyrexia and in cases of
difficult labour.
Medicines, Supply of.—Arrangements exist with local
chemists by which prescriptions are dispensed
free in necessitous cases for mothers and children
attending the Maternity and Child Welfare
Centres.
Milk.—Pasteurised milk is supplied free of charge and
at half-price in certain necessitous cases of expectant
and nursing mothers and babies, on the recommendation
of the Medical Officers at the Clinics.
Certain dried milks, etc., are similarly supplied
free, at half-price and at cost price.
Minor Ailments.—Treatment is given daily at the Central
Clinic, the Woodward Clinic, and at the
Porters Avenue Clinic to children under the age
of five years.