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INFECTIOUS ILLNESSES.
Ophthalmia Neonatorum. Six cases wore notified during the year, and of
this number 4 cases occurred in the North Middlesex County Hospital, none of
which were Edmonton cases.
Puerperal Pyrexia. 85 casos wore notified during the year, and of this
nunbor 71 casos occurred in the North Middlesox County Hospital, of which 20
were Edmonton cases. Two were admitted to Enfield and Edmonton Isolation
Hospital.
i-IEDWIFERY AND MATERNITY SERVICES.
The number of claims made by doctors for Medical Aid during the year 1940
was 211, of this number 57 casos were granted free of charge.
MUNICIPAL MIDWIFERY SERVICE.
The following gives information as to the actual bookings for 1940:-
Number of women who booked during 1940 763.
Of this number 173 were granted the service of a midwife free and 56 reapplications
were reviewed during the year, these mothers thus being relieved
from further payments.
Analysis of work.
Actual confinements attended by midwives ... 606 (Of this number 576 as
midwives and 30 as Maternity
Nurses).
Attended by midwives, but women admitted
to Hospital for actual confinement 72
Left district before confinement or
mothers evacuated through L.C.C. scheme
etc. 101 (Attention and Supervision
given by Municipal Midwives
during Ante-Natal period).
EVACUATION OF EXPECTANT MOTHERS UNDER THE GOVERNMENT SCHEME AT THE
8th MONTH OF PREGNANCY.
The Department has been responsible for the arrangements in connection with
the evacuation of Expectant Mothers under the Government Scheme, and in
1940, 3.22 mothers applied to be sent away and by the 31st December 68 women
had been sent to reception areas for their confinements, and 9 had cancelled
arrangement s.
ANTE-NATAL SCHEME OF CO-PERATION BETWEEN THE COUNCIL AND THE MIDDLESEX
COUNTY COUNCIL.
Under an arrangement with the Middlesex County Council the Health Visitors
visited 135 homes during the year where women had applied to the North
Middlesex County Hospital for admission and the Authorities desired to have
a report on the home circumstances.
311 women were referredto the Council's Ante-Natal Clinic for attendance
for routine supervision purposes prior to their confinements.