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Health, whereby patients requiring institutional treatment for their confinements
were received into the District Maternity Home, part of
the premises belonging to the Guardians adjoining the Infirmary, to
which access is gained by Bull Lane, Edmonton.
Patients are admitted to the Home on the recommendation of
your Medical Officer of Health, and your Council has undertaken the
responsibility for payment of the maintenance, accommodation and
medical treatment of these patients, the Council being re-imbursed
by the patients in so far as their circumstances will allow.
Although most of the cases admitted reauire special treatment
because of complications, actual or anticioated, it was not the purpose
that admission should be limited to such, but rather that opportunity
should be given to women whose home circumstances were unpropitious,
to have a safe delivery under conditions approaching as nearly as
possible the ideal.
The Maternity Home is equipped and staffed to meet every
emergency, and the convenience of having easily accessible as many
bedr as are reasonably likeV to be required has added materially to
the efficiency of the Maternity and Child Welfare scheme.
The beds are available for and have been taken advantage of
by patients of private practitioners as well as those who have attended
at the ante natal clinic.
PATIENTS ADMITTED INTO THE MATERNITY HOME.
18 admitted.
5 still resident at December 31st.
13 admitted and discharged.
Cost of the 13 Patients admitted and discharged £69 : 12 : 0
Contributions of Patients towards maintenance £16 : 1:6
Average Number of Days per Patient in Residence—26.
I am. Ladies and Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
David C. Kirkhope.
Medical Officer.