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North side only attends to patients in the Nursing Home
which she controls. The inspection of Midwives is under the
supervision of the County Council.
No Midwife is employed or subsidised by this Council
MATERNITY AND NURSING HOMES.
The Middlesex County Council is the local super
vising Authority under the Acts relating to the registration
of Maternity and other nursing homes. There are two private
nursing homes in the district.
POOR LAW MEDICAL RELIEF.
The Relieving Officer issued 167 Medical Orders
during 1933. Some of these cases also received out-relief
or institutional treatment.
MATERNAL MORTALITY.
Puerperal Fever and Puerperal Pyrexia.
During the year ten cases of Puerperal Pyrexia were
notified and treated at Hospitals of the London County Council
Three of the cases were fatal.
There were five maternal deaths of Southall residents
confined and treated elsewhere.
Maternal deaths and cases of Puerperal Fever and
Puerperal Pyrexia are investigated by the Medical Officer
of Health, and there is an arrangement whereby the Council
has empowered the Medical Officer of Health to call in specialists
where, after consultation with the practitioner concerned,
it is deemed necessary.
Institutional Provision for Unmarried Mothers, Illegitimate
Infants and Homeless Children in the District.
None.
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