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(a) Twelve paid a fee of £5 5s. for the services of the Consulting
Obstetrician. In 56 instances part of the fee was paid by the
patient, the remainder being paid by the Council. In 12 instances,
the Council paid the whole of the fee.
(b) One paid a fee of 7/6d. per week and 3 10/- per week for the
maintenance of the baby in the Home apart from its mother.
Pupil Midwives.—The work of training Pupil Midwives has
continued in a satisfactory manner; eight who were engaged
during the year were successful in passing the examination of
the Central Midwives Board.
Maternity Cases.
(a) Queen Mary's Hospital.
There has been an arrangement since July, 1923, with the
Queen Mary's Hospital, Stratford, for the treatment of maternity
cases requiring operative or other treatment which cannot be
carried out in the Ilford Maternity Home, and cases which require
admission to a maternity home and cannot be dealt with at our
own institution, the agreed charge being 7s. per day. This is, of
course, subject to accommodation being available.
One case was treated during 1936.
(b) Oldchurch Hospital.
Where no accommodation is available at the Maternity Home
an arrangement has been made with the Essex County Council
for the admission of those maternity cases to Oldchurch Hospital,
on my authorisation, at a charge to the Council of lis. 6d. per
day, such cases to be charged in accordance with the scale for
the admission of cases to the Council's Maternity Home.
Three cases were admitted under this arrangement during
1936.
Closure of Home.
Owing to a number of cases of mastitis and pemphigus