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cases likely to be complicated by some medical or physical
conditions.
There are six institutions classified as Maternity Hospitals
and Homes within the Borough, which are registered
by the Local Authority under the Nursing Homes Registration
Act, 1927, and, including the Maternity Hospital,
make provision for 33 maternity beds to which 440 cases
were admitted during 1934.
Details of maternity and nursing homes registered by
the Local Authority appear later in this Report under 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, by arrangement with
the Local Authority, accept cases coming under the abovementioned
heading. Patients are conveyed to the hospital
by the London Ambulance Service of the London County
Council.
In all cases of doubt, or where the cause of pyrexia is
not of a minor character the consultant services of Mr.
Bright Banister are called upon. It was necessary to call
upon his services in two cases during 1934.
Post-Natal.
Home Visiting.
Since the close of the year 1934 the staff of health
visitors has been composed of five full-time health
visitors and school nurses and one part-time health visitor
who devotes three days per week to this work.
The total number of visits made by the health visitors
during 1934 amounted to 7,724, to which should be added
1,647 "ineffectual" visits, making an aggregate total of
9,371 visits. These 1,647 "ineffectual" visits were made
up of visits where no answer was received, the family was
found to have removed, or visits were not appreciated.
The number of "no answer " visits is aggravated by the