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free of cost. The sum collected from the sale of outfits was
£7 16s. 0d. and the net cost to the Council was, therefore,
£18 18s. 0d.
Midwives and Midwifery Assistance.—There are 75 midwives
residing in the Borough who have notified to the local supervising
authority (the London County Council) their intention to practise,
and 9 midwives who practise in the Borough but reside elsewhere.
Of the total number 16 are engaged in private practice, the remaining
number being employed by hospitals and voluntary associations.
In order to meet the needs of those mothers who desire to be
confined in their own homes and are unable to pay a midwife's fee.
the Council adopted a scheme in 1920 under which it accepts
financial responsibility for the whole or part of the cost of a
midwife's services.
The fees of midwives in attendance on 44 mothers were paid
by the Council during the year, the payments totalling £50 19s. Od.
Domiciliary Midwifery Service.— The scheme made by the
London County Council under the Midwives' Act, 1936, came into
operation on 1st January, 1938. Under this scheme Hackney is
included with Bethnal Green, Poplar, Shoreditch, Stepney and Stoke
Newington in a group of boroughs to be known as Area A, to serve
which six midwives, including two who are resident in Hackney,
have been appointed by the County Council.
In addition, certain hospitals and nursing associations in the
Area have entered into agreements with the County Council to
provide midwives to undertake confinements in patients' homes, and
arrangements have also been made with various nursing associations,
including the Hackney District Nursing Association, to provide
maternity nurses to assist medical practitioners at confinements.
Full co-operation between the Borough Council's ante-natal
clinics and the County Council's midwives has been arranged, and
a panel of obstetric specialists has been formed by the Borough
Councils included in Area A. The following is a list of the
consultants forming this panel:—
Lady Florence Barrett.
Miss Margaret Basden.
Miss Alice Bloomfield.
R. Alan Brews, Esq.
R. Christie Brown, Esq.
Harold Chappie, Esq.
Robert L. Dodds, Esq.
Arthur C. Gray, Esq.
Eardly L. Holland, Esq.
William McKim H. McCullagh, Esq.
Frank N. Reynolds, Esq.
Frederick W. Roques, Esq.