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Nursing Homes Registration Act, 1927.
There are three registered nursing homes in the Borough.
These institutions were inspected on 14 occasions.
Home Helps.
Under the Council's scheme for the provision of home helps,
93 applications for home helps were dealt with. In 64 cases home
helps were provided, 28 of these cases having the charges remitted
in accordance with the Council's scale. In the 29 remaining cases,
10 made other arrangements for the confinement, 12 cases had
not been confined at the end of the year, one removed, one refused to
pay the scale fee, one had not engaged a midwife and 4 were refused
owing to unsuitable accommodation.
At the end of the year there were 12 names on the Council's
approved list of home helps.
MATERNAL MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY.
Ministry of Health Circular 1622.—Administrative Arrangements.
In May, 1937, the Minister of Health issued Circular 1622, in
which the attention of Maternity and Child Welfare Authorities
was drawn to the Report on Maternal Mortality recently presented
to Parliament. After referring to the great amount of attention
devoted during recent years to the question of deaths in childbirth,
the Minister considers it important that the subject should be
regarded in its proper perspective.
The number of women who die in childbirth in this country
is relatively small, and it can be said that motherhood here has
reached a comparatively high level of safety. The young married
woman can be told with confidence that if she is in normal health
and will take the ordinary and sensible precautions which her
doctor or the medical staff at the ante-natal clinic advise, the risk
she will run in childbirth need be no matter of anxiety.
Report by the Medical Officer of Health to Maternity and
Child Welfare Committee—September, 1937.
In accordance with the suggestion contained in Council
Minute 2070 I submit the following observations and suggestions
on such official Recommendations contained in the above
Circular as are not in operation in connection with the Council's
maternity and child welfare scheme.