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During 1936, 105 cases were referred and 1,052 treatments
given.
CONVALESCENT HOME TREATMENT.
The Council have allowed arrangements to be made in
appropriate cases for change of environment at a convalescent
home, and accepted responsibility for the payment in
whole, or in part, for this convalescence according to their
economic scale.
During the year arrangements were made for the convalescence
of 17 cases.
MIDWIVES.
The supervision of midwives and the registration of
nursing homes in the district are responsibilities of the
Middlesex County Council.
The County Medical Officer of Health has kindly supplied
the information that at the end of 1936 there were 30
midwives resident and practising in the district, and eight
nursing homes registered for the reception of maternity
cases.
The passing of the Midwives Act, 1936, seemed to be an
appropriate time for the Council to make application to the
Minister of Health, under Section 62 of the Local Government
Act, 1929, that the Council should become the local
supervising authority under the Midwives Acts for the district
in place of the County Council. The Council felt that
there were already many points of contact with the practising
midwives in this area and their maternity and child
welfare services, and that were the Council to become the
local supervising authority this contact would be strengthened
and fuller gains obtained from the district's health
services.
The Minister of Health, however, in intimating that he
did not propose to issue such an order desired it to be understood
that the most important factor to be considered in
connection with such an application was the number of cases
attended each year by midwives in the homes of patients
within the district, and, having regard to the small number
of such cases in Wembley, the number of midwives required
in the district would be too few to justify the establishment
of a separate service for the district.
The following table, drawn up from the notification of
births received, would appear to be relevant:—
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