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puerperal pyrexia. For nursing assistance the Borough Council pay, in necessitous
cases, in accordance with the following schedule :—
Disease. Rate of Payment.
Measles
Ophthalmia Neonatorum
Zymotic Enteritis
Whooping Cough
Poliomyelitis
Acute Primary Pneumonia
Influenzal Pneumonia
Puerperal Fever
Puerperal Pyrexia
Tuberculosis
An additional grant is made yearly in respect of the nursing treatment of children
suffering from threadworms.
vi. Hospitals.
The Medical Officer of Health is asked to report under this heading on the
hospitals belonging to the local authority and hospitals with which the local
authority have made arrangements for the admission of patients. There are no
hospitals belonging to this local authority, but arrangements for the admission of
patients have been made with two local hospitals :—
(a) War Memorial Hospital.
(b) British Hospital for Mothers and Babies.
The Council's arrangements with these hospitals were fully reported on in the
Annual Report for 1930, but it may be convenient to refer to them briefly here :
At the War Memorial Hospital the Council reserve twelve beds for children
under five years, and sufficient accommodation as may be necessary for 66 maternity
cases per annum. In addition the hospital authorities are under contract to provide
emergency treatment as occasion arises for such cases of midwifery as require it.
At the British Hospital for Mothers and Babies, such accommodation as may be
necessary for 144 confinements per annum, and for their ante-natal treatment, is
reserved for cases sent by the Borough Council.
Proposals to provide additional maternity accommodation at both of the above
hospitals were under consideration at the end of the year.
Is. Od. per visit for one case ; 6d. per visit,
per case, for more than one case in the
house at the same time.
1s. 3d. per visit.