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Estimated Cost of Midwifery Arrangements.
8.—It is estimated that the cost to carry out the Act on the foregoing lines will be as follows :—
Contribution to Queen Charlotte's Maternity Hospital £1,032
Cost of midwives employed directly by the Council.
Salaries and allowances :—
Superintendence of Midwives.
£188-218 £188
Midwives.
5 at £255 per annum £1,275'
Uniform.
5 at £12 per annum £60
Laundry.
5 at £10 per annum £50
Travelling Allowance.
5 at £20 each per annum £100
Telephone.
5 at £12 each per annum £60
Disinfectants and drugs £10O
Refresher courses £20
Insurance £10
Clerical assistance and investigations £100
Printing, stationery and postage £10
Superannuation and State Insurance £82
Contingencies £100
£2,155
Less: Sums now paid for necessitous cases of midwifery £350-
£1,805
Annual income.
600 midwifery cases. Payments by patients. Say, 15s. per case £450
Summary of Estimated Costs.
9.— Midwifery.
Contribution to Queen Charlotte's Hospital £1,032
Cost of midwifery service to Council 1,805-
Less Income—600 midwifery cases. Payments by patients at, say, 15s. per case ... 450
2,387
Deduct Government Grant on £2,387, estimated at 25 per cent 597
Net cost chargeable to rates £1,790
Maternity Nursing.
Contribution to Willesden District Nursing Association as per letter dated 17/12/36 £1,615
Less Income—400 maternity nursing cases. Payments by patients at 15s. per case 300
1,315
Deduct Government Grant on £1,315 less £200, being the sum already paid to this
Association for maternity nursing, estimated at 25 per cent 279
Net cost chargeable to rates £1,036
Total net cost chargeable to rates based on a year's working in respect of midwifery
and maternity nursing as above £2,826
Dated this 21st day of July, 1931
Dated this 27th day of July, 1937.
N. M. COWAN,
Chairman.
W. J. HILL,
Chairman.