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(vii) Clinics and Treatment Centres.
A list of Clinics and Centres, giving their situation and
accommodation, was set out in the Annual Report for 1931.
There have been no alterations or additions during the year.
MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE.
(i) Midwives.
The Midwives are under the administrative control of
the Surrey County Council.
There were eleven registered as practising in the
Borough at the end of the year.
The Kingston Nursing Association, 33, Birkenhead
Avenue, undertake District Midwifery work.
(ii) Maternal Mortality.
The investigation into maternal deaths is carried out by
the Medical Officer of Health, who addresses confidential
reports to the Senior Medical Officer, Ministry of Health,
in the form specified by the Ministry. Two investigations
were made during the year.
During the year 10 cases were notified under the Public
Health (Notification of Puerperal Fever and Puerperal
Pyrexia) Regulations, 1926.
Immediate investigation was made into the circumstances
of each case, and a copy of the notification sent to
the County Medical Officer of Health.
Of the 10 cases notified, 4 were either admitted to or
already in-patients at the Kingston and District Hospital.
There were no deaths among these notified cases.
The one death from puerperal sepsis recorded by the
Registrar General was an inward transfer whose death
occurred at Hampstead, but whose usual residence was in
Kingston.
The consultant, Mr. Andrew McAllister, was not
summoned during the year.