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Twenty-five cases were financially assisted under the
scheme, of whom 10 were admitted to the Maternity
Hospital and the remainder went to the Nursing Home.
In addition, 13 cases were recommended from the AnteNatal
Clinic or by the Department to other Maternity
Institutions.
The total number of women admitted to the Maternity
Hospital during the year was 127.
The Maternity Hospital should he reserved for those
cases other than normal, those that would take place
in bad environmental conditions, and those whose confinements
are likely to be complicated by some medical
or physical condition. There is no doubt an encouragement
to hospitalise all maternity cases on the grounds
of giving the mother greater comfort and perhaps to
ease the economic stress if the confinement took place
at home. Hospitalisation must be watched so that it
does not become a hindrance, but an aid to public health
and a guard against maternal mortality.
There are nine institutions classified as Maternity
Hospital and Homes within the Borough, which are
registered under the Nursing Homes Kegistration Act,
1927; and, including the Maternity Hospital, make
provision for 26 maternity beds, to which 226 maternity
cases were admitted during 1932.
Details of maternity and nursing homes registered
by the Local Authority under the Nursing Homes Registration
Act, 1927, appears later in this Report under
the section dealing with Summary of General Provision
of Health Services in the Area.
Puerperal Fever and Puerperal Pyrexia.
The arrangements for treatment, isolation, etc.,
of cases coming under the above-mentioned heading are
made with Queen Charlotte's Maternity Hospital, London,
at their Isolation Block, Bavenscourt Square,
Hammersmith. Cases are conveyed to the Hospital by
the London Ambulance Service of the London County
Council.