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Willesden 1933
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Willesden]
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Of the Midwives living in Willesden it will be noted that apart from institutions or associations
the largest number of midwifery cases any single midwife attended as a midwife was 51, and that the
largest total of cases any single midwife attended was 61, being 51 cases which she attended as a
Midwife and 10 as a Maternity Nurse.
During the year ended 31st December, 1933, 149 notifications were received from Midwives
practising in Willesden in accordance with the rules of the Central Midwives Board. Of these 149
notifications 125 were received from Midwives living and practising in Willesden, and 24 from Midwives
practising in but living outside Willesden. Of the 149 notifications received 133 were in respect of
calling in Medical help, 95 being in respect of the mother and 38 in respect of the child.
In addition 4 notifications were received from Midwives acting as Maternity Nurses.
The total fees paid by the Council to Medical practitioners called in by Midwives during the
year ending December 31st, 1933, was £68 11s. 0d. During the year £28 18s. 0d. was recovered from
patients.
Table No . 46.
The following information was sent to the Ministry of Health on Form M.C.W. 96 (revised):-Midwives.
| I. (a) Number practising in the area served by the Council for Maternity and Child Welfare at the end of the year | 43 | ||
| (Up to 10th Feb., 1934, 39 have notified intention to practise in Willesden during 1934.) | |||
| (b) Number (i.) employed by the Council | 0 | ||
| (ii.) directly subsidised by the Council | 0 | ||
| (iii.) employed by Voluntary Associations in Willesden | 11 (Queen's Nurses, 17/19, Park Avenue, Willesden—(These act as Maternity Nurses -not as Midwives. 3 are allocated to Maternity nursing only. The remainder do Maternity Nursing as required.) | ||
| 3 (Queen Charlotte's Hospital District Nurses Home, 40, Princess Road. Kilburn.) | |||
| (iv.) employed by Voluntary Associations outside Willesden | (Queen Charlotte's Hospital District Nurses' Home, 7 North Kensington.) (Queen's District Nurses, Hampstead.) | ||
| (c) Number of cases during the year in which the Council paid or contributed to the fee of a midwife- | |||
| 33 where the midwife was acting as a midwife. 9 where the midwife was acting as a maternity nurse. | |||
| II.(a) Number of cases attended by midwives during the year:- | |||
| In Willesden by all midwives practising in Willesden. | Outside Willesden by midwives resident in Willesden. | ||
| (i.) As midwives | 982 | 160 | |
| (ii.) As maternity nurses | 235 | 14 | |
| (b) Number of cases during the year in which medical aid was summoned by a midwife under Section 14 (1) of the Midwives Act, 1918—1933. | |||