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MEDICAL OFFICER'S ANNUAL REPORT SHEET 7 OF DRAFT
Small Pox Hospitals.
There are none in the District but the Council is one of the
constituent authorities of the Middlesex Districts Joint Small Pox
Hospitals Board.
Other Hospitals.
There are none in the District but the Council contribute a donation
to each of the cottage Hospitals of Finchley Wood Green and Barnet,
Any Institutional Provision for unmarried mothers, illegitimate children
and homeless infants in the Area.
There is one rescue home in the District.
Ambulance facilities.
The Council have this year made satisfactory arrangements with the
Finchley Council for the use of the ambulance maintained by that
Authority for street accident cases, and the same ambulance is
available at a very reasonable charge for the removal of private
cases to and from hospital. We are still dependant upon the horsed
ambulance of the Finchley Council for the removal of infectious cases
to hospital. During the year the Sanitary Inspector presented a full
report on this matter to the Public Health Committee and negotiations
are now in progress with the Southgate Council with a view to the
provision of a motor ambulance to serve the hospital of the latter
authority at Palmer's Green and to deal with the Friern Barnet
patients using that hospital.
Clinics & Treatment Centres.
There are two in the District, one in connection with the public
primary schools, provided and maintained by the M.C.C. and situated
at the Holly Park Schools of that Authority. This Clinic has done
some excellent work in mitigating future disablement and it is a very
pleasing feature to note that the County Council's Health Visitor
follows up the work of the Clinic in the District and that the parents
of the children appreciate her practical instruction in dealing with
the minor ailments of the school children.
The second clinic is situated in the South Ward, provided and maintained
by the South Ward Nursing Association.
There are two other nursing associations one in the Central Ward, and
One in the North Ward but up to the present neither have established
treatment clinics.
Maternity & Child Welfare.
This work continues under the auspices of the Middlesex County
Council. It has been, decided to establish an additional Maternity &
Child Welfare Centre in the North Ward making three centres in all
one in each Ward. A central ante-natal clinic has been established
where expectant mothers can obtain expert advice and if necessary
proper hospital treatment. The maternal deaths in this district
due to complications of pregnancy and/or puerperal sepsis are very
few indeed, there being only 21 deaths attributable to these causes
in 40 years and of these eight occurred during the War Years 1914 to
1918 but it is hoped that a still better standard may be obtained if
the result of the use of sensitised strep to cocal vaccine early in
manipulative cases prove to be trustworthy. The infantile mortality
rate for the year is 73 per 1,000 births a satisfactory figure and
below that for the Country generally I append a table showing causes
of and ages at death of infants under one year.