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received from other 4 midwives. During the same period 2
midwives removed from the district, so that at the end of the year
the number of practising midwives was 30. Of this number 5
were engaged at the Chiswick and Ealing Maternity Hospital
and 11 were engaged in private nursing homes.
All of the midwives practising in the Borough possess the
Certificate of the Central Midwives Board.
Number of Births attended by Midwives — Practising midwives
are required to furnish a return at the close of each year detailing
the number of women attended by them, either in the capacity
of midwife or whilst acting as a maternity nurse under the direction
of a medical practitioner. From the returns supplied by the
midwives it was found that during the three months ending 31st
December, 1930, 236 births in Ealing were attended by certified
midwives acting in the capacity of midwife, and in 77 further
cases certified midwives acted as maternity nurses in cases attended
by doctors. The number of births attended by midwives is equal
to 48 per cent. of all births notified, while certified midwives were
employed as maternity nurses in a further 16 per cent. of cases.
Notification.—The number of notifications received during the
three months from midwives, in accordance with the Rules of the
Central Midwives Board, was as follows:—
Notifications of—
Sending for medical assistance:
On account of a complication of pregnancy 7
On account of a complication during labour 14
On account of a complication during the
puerperium 4
On account of the health of the child 8
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Still-birth 4
Death: Infant 3
Laying Out of a Dead Body 1
Artificial Feeding of Infant 3
Liability of Midwife to be a source of Infection 5
Total 49