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Certain foods were supplied to expectant mothers
for whom special treatment was ordered. These foods were
supplied free in necessitous cases. Vitamin preparations as
supplied by the Ministry of Food to expectant mothers continued
to be distributed for each ante-natal clinic.
No request for the services of a consultant was made
during the year.
The scheme whereby expectant mothers were given
facilities for chest X-ray continued to prove satisfactory. The
total number who were X-rayed was 733 and of these 29 were found
to be in need of further observation and/or treatment. The fee
payable by the Council to the hospital was 10s.6d. for each
mother.
CARE OF MOTHERS DURING CONFINEMENT.
The Corporation have not established a maternity
home and have no formal agreement with any hospital for the
reception of difficult or complicated cases. These are referred
to the West Middlesex County Hospital.
HOME HELP SERVICE.
During the year the Home Help Service was extended to
all homes in which urgent domestic help was needed. Previously
this service was available only to the Expectant and Nursing
Mother and in homes where there were children under the age of
five. At the end of the year there were five full-time and six
part-time Home Helps on the staff. In addition there were five temporary Home Helps.

GAS AND AIR ANALGESTA.
All the Corporation Municipal Midwives are qualified
to administer Gas and Air Analgesia. Analgesia was administered
to 87 patients (as compared with 45 in 1945) during the year.
The two midwives who have cars carry the apparatus with them.
Two other machines are kept at the Hollies Ambulance Depot for
use by the remaining midwives.
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