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Maternity Hospital to accept only those cases who cannot
with safety be confined at home because of medical
reasons or environmental reasons. To encourage
hospitalisation of the normal cases is to encourage
sentiment at the expense of sound Public Health.
There are seven institutions classified as Maternity
Hospital and Homes within the Borough, which are
registered by us under the Nursing Homes Registration
Act, 1927, and, including the Maternity Hospital, make
provision for 35 maternity beds, to which 289 maternity
cases were admitted during 1933.
Details of maternity and nursing homes registered
by the Local Authority under the Nursing Homes
Registration Act appear later in this Report under the
Part IV. dealing with Summary of General Provision of
Health Services in the Area.
Puerperal Fever and Puerperal Pyrexia.
Queen Charlotte's Maternity Hospital, Isolation Block,
Ravenscourt Square, Hammersmith, accept cases coming
under the above-mentioned heading by arrangement with
the Local Authority. Patients are conveyed to the
Hospital by the London Ambulance Service of the London
County Council.
Eight cases of puerperal pyrexia were notified; four
were removed to hospital, three were nursed in their own
homes and one in a nursing home, these latter four cases
all being pyrexia of a minor character.
In all cases of doubt, or where the cause of the
pyrexia is not of a minor character, the consultant services
of Mr. Bright Banister are called upon.
Four of the above cases were of sepsis and were
removed to hospital. Two of these patients died.
Post-Natal.
Home Visiting.
Since the close of the year 1933 the staff of five
whole-time health visitors has been supplemented by the
addition of one part-time health visitor who devotes three