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Ealing 1935
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Ealing]
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Payment of midwives fees.—In necessitous cases the Council
engage midwives and pay their fees. The practice is to allow
the patient to select the midwife she wishes to attend at the confinement
and for the Council to engage the midwife and to pay
for her sendees, the fee being £2 5s. Od. for a primipara and £2
for multipara. During the year midwives were engaged in 78
cases.
The Town Council gave consideration to a suggestion that a
municipal midwifery service should be instituted in the district.
In view of the satisfactory manner in which the present scheme
was working and in view of the possibility of the Minister of Health
reviewing the matter from a national standpoint it was decided
to take no action at the time.
MATERNITY AND NURSING HOMES.
The following table gives information regarding nursing homes within the Borough :
| No. of Homes | No. of Beds | |
|---|---|---|
| Number of Nursing Homes on Register at beginning of year | 234 (59) | |
| Number of applications for registration | 3 | |
| Number of Homes registered | 3 | |
| Number of Homes discontinued | 2 | |
| Number of Homes removed from Register | 1 | |
| Number of Nursing Homes on Register at end of year | 24 (14) | 241 (63) |
The figures in brackets indicate the number of Homes and the number
of Beds devoted wholly or partly to the reception of maternity cases).
In one case the Council took action under Section 3 (i) of
the Nursing Homes Registration Act to cancel a certificate of
registration. This action was taken because of the unsatisfactory