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Arrangements for the training of Pupil Midwives.
The training of Part II pupil midwives who work in West Ham is undertaken by Plaistow
Maternity Hospital and the Lady Rayleigh Training Home Part II Training Schools. The latter
also has an arrangement by which part of the training is taken at Forest Gate Hospital. Pupils
from the Plaistow Part II Training School attend Local Child Welfare Centres, and also come
to the Health Department with their Tutor when short talks are given to them by the Health
Department Staff.
The conferences at officer level on the co-ordination of the maternity services which
began in I952 were satisfactorily concluded in I953. Certain recommendations regarding the
Domiciliary Midwifery Service, the Part II Training School at Plaistow Maternity Hospital and
the liaison between the three maternity units in the Borough on the one hand, and the Local
Health Authority Service on the other hand, were conveyed to the West Ham Borough Council, and
the Group 9 Hospital Management Committee, These recommendations were accepted. The approval
of the Regional Hospital Board, and the Central Midwives Board is now awaited, and it Is hoped
to implement the recommendations during 1954 and to give a further account of them in the
Annual Report for that year.
Maternity Services.
Total live births notified as West Ham births during the year 1953 was 2,830.
Delivered in their own homes within the Borough 555
Delivered in Maternity Units within the Borough 2,060
Delivered outside the Borough 215
2,830

se These midwives had the assistance of pupils.
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