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The notifications in connection with Medical Aid can be
classified as follows:—
During pregnancy 7
During labour 157
During lying-in-period 38
Infant 47
FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE IN RESPECT OF
MIDWIFERY FEES
Financial assistance was given in 42 cases. This compares
with 130 in 1946 and 206 in 1945.
OBSTETRIC SPECIALIST
The scheme whereby the General Practitioners of the district
may call in the help of the Obstetric Unit at the North Middlesex
County Hospital in cases of difficulty during the ante-natal period
or at the confinement was, on the opening of the Maternity
Department at Chase Farm Hospital, replaced by a similar arrangement
with Chase Farm Hospital.
On one occasion was the Unit called.
HOME HELPS
Although it was not possible to increase to any great extent
the number of Home Helps available, 104 households received
this service during the year, compared with 40 the previous year.
The benefit, if indeed not the necessity, of a Home Help in many
homes at the time of confinement or domestic emergency, cannot
be over emphasized and our aim must be to extend and make more
readily available this valuable service.
The following figures show the work undertaken:—
82 maternity cases.
22 domestic cases.
BIRTH CONTROL
In accordance with the authority given by the Minister of
Health, your Medical Officers continued to give advice on this
subject to those mothers attending the Maternity and Child Welfare
Centres, for whom further pregnancy would be detrimental to
health.