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Payment of Fees.—Fees amounting to £181. 18s. Od. were
paid by the Town Council in respect of 138 claims submitted by
medical practitioners. The Council has power to recover from the
patient, or her husband, the amount of the fee paid or such proportion
of it as the financial circumstances of the family justify. The
amount of the fees reclaimed was £60. 5s. Id.
Post-Certificate Instruction of Midwives.—The arrangements
made for midwives resident in the Borough to attend courses of
lectures arranged by the London County Council were continued
during 1934. To encourage the local midwives to attend the
lectures the Council offered to refund travelling expenses incurred
in attending the lectures, which are held at London Hospitals.
Leaflets of Advice to Expectant Mothers.—The midwives
engaged in general practice were offered for the use of their patients
a supply of the leaflets of advice to expectant mothers which have
been issued in recent years at the Council's Ante-Natal Clinics.
It is pleasing to record that a number of the midwives have accepted
the opportunity to supply these leaflets to the expectant mothers
who engage their services.
MATERNITY AND NURSING HOMES.

The figures in brackets indicate the number of Homes and the number
of Beds devoted wholly or partly to the reception of maternity cases).