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TREATMENT OF MINOR AILMENTS. - Children suffering from
simple dietetic ailments are treated at the infant welfare centres.
Facilities are, however, available at the sessions held for school children
at Kenwood Gardens and Mayesbrook Clinics for children under school
age to receive treatment for minor ailments, although in practice very few
so attend.
MIDWIVES. — There were 12 State Certified midwives (including
the Non-Medical Supervisor of Midwives, 9 domiciliary midwives and 1
part-time midwife employed by the County Council), resident and practising
in the district at the end of the year. In addition there were 31 State
Certified midwives at the Ilford Maternity Hospital.
Supervision of the midwives practising on the district, including
regular inspections by the Medical Supervisor of Midwives, was carried
out as in previous years, and general supervision, in accordance with
the Rules of the Central Midwives Board, was exercised over the midwives
practising at the Ilford Maternity Hospital.
Suspension from Practice. — It was necessary in 1962 to require
one domiciliary midwife to remain off duty for 53 days to prevent the
spread of infection.
Domiciliary Midwifery Service. — At the end of the year there were
9 domiciliary midwives employed by the County Council whole-time and 1
part-time, in addition to the Non-Medical Supervisor.
During the year 677 cases were attended and a doctor was specially
called in by the midwife to 74 of these.
Of the infants born there were 6 stillbirths.
Eleven deaths occurred of infants during the first year of life where
the birth had been attended by a domiciliary midwife; in eight of these the
infant was under the age of ten days.