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institutional treatment of complicated midwifery cases, and for
women whose homes are unsuitable for their confinement, the
East Ham borough Council have arrangements for the accommodation
of necessitous cases requiring in-patient treatment, at
Queen Mary's Hospital, Stratford, the Maternity Charity
District Nurses' Home, Plaistow, and Forest Gate Sick Home.
During 1930, two cases thus provided for were confined in
Queen Mary's Hospital, and a considerable number of patients
attending the Ante-natal Clinic were admitted to Forest Gate
Sick Home.
Inspection of Midwives.
The Assistant Medical Officer of Maternity and Child Welfare
is also Inspector of Midwives under the Borough Council, and in
that capacity maintains a general supervision over the work of all
midwives practising in East Ham, under the requirements of the
Midwives Acts, 1902, 1918, end 1926.
52 Midwives notified the Local Supervising Authority of their
intention to practice within the Borough during 1930. Of these,
33 worked in connection with the Maternity Hospital and District
Nurses' Home, Plaistow, and its branches, seven at the Sir
Henry Tate Nurses' Home, Silver town, two at the Kelvingrove
Nursing Home, and 10 Practised independently.
34 visits of inspection were made by the Inspecting Medical
Officer during the year.
Under the rules issued by the Central Midwives Board, a
midwife must notify the Local Supervising Authority within 36
hours if she has summoned medical aid, during pregnancy, in a
confinement, or within 10 days afterwards.