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private ones. The number of municipal midwives was accordingly
reduced to three at the end of August. The remaining three midwives
have not been fully employed during the year, but their
services are becoming more and more in request, and as the number
of midwives engaged in private practice decreases in the ordinary
course of events, there is more likelihood of their being fully
employed in the future. The cost of the Municipal midwifery
service is met by the Middlesex County Council, and the fees
charged in individual cases are graduated according to the
financial circumstances of the patient.
MATERNITY AND NURSING HOMES.
One Maternity Nursing Home and one Nursing Home were
registered by the Middlesex County Council in the Borough of
Wood Green during 1938. Supervision of the Nursing Homes and
of the midwives practising in the Borough is in the hands of the
County Council.
HOSPITALS.
1. Fever.
Wood Green is one of four authorities (Hornsey, Finchley,
Wood Green and Friern Barnet) which together own and control
the Joint Isolation Hospital, Coppetts Road, Muswell Hill.
The Hospital is a good one, with an excellent modern observation
block, built on the cubicle system, and has accommodation for
one hundred and fifty patients.
The cases admitted are for the most part those of scarlet fever
and diphtheria, but in case, of need accommodation is also available
for most other infectious diseases, except smallpox, puerperal
fever and ophthalmia neonatorum, for which other provision has
been made.