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Your Council make a grant of £100 to the Association.
The Superintendent reports that during 1937 the visits specified
below were paid by the nursing staff: —
Nature of Disease Cases Visits.
Measles 3 11
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 12 118
Parotitis 2 8
Scarlet Fever 2 10
Threadworms 64 288
Whooping Cough 7 29
Puerperal Pyrexia 4 72
Pneumonia 77 1,446
Chicken Pox 1 16
Totals 172 1,998
The revised scheme made under the Local Government Act,
1929, for the grant period 1937-42 allocates £55 5s. Od. per annum
to the Association in respect of Maternity and Child Welfare work.
This grant will, in 1938, be merged into the grant m,ade under the
Midwives Act, 1936.
Dr. Cecilia Cohen, acting for the Association, kindly arranged
the following post-graduate lectures for midwives in the Borough,
an invitation to attend also being extended to the midwives in
adjoining areas:—
1937.
January 14th "Drugs; reagents and Dr Helen Rodway,
analgesia in labour" M.C.O,G
March 17th . "Breech Delivery" Miss Doubleday, S.C.M
SK.N. Matron, General
Lying-in Hospital, York
Road.
April 1st . "The Puerperium" Mr. W. McKim H.
McCullagh, D.S.O.,
M.C., M.B. B.Ch.,
F.R.C.S., M.C.O.G.
May 13th "Some Common Diseases Prof. L. Findlay, D.Sc.
of the Newly Born" M.D., F.R.C.P.
ANAESTHETIST'S FEES.
Towards the end of the year your Council approved the payment
of a fee of one guinea for the services of ,an anæsthetist when
required by a medical practitioner engaged to attend a confinement
provided the case was abnormal or difficult and the doctor had previously
been engaged for the confinement.
Recovery on the scale for assisted Maternity and Child Welfare
services was made in the one case in which this service was
approved.