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Maternity and Child Welfare. 67
Midwives and Nursing Arrangements.
The supervision of midwives is under the control of the
London County Council, but there is full co-operation between
the midwives and the Health Visitors. 42 midwives practise
in the Borough, of whom 17 reside in neighbouring Boroughs.
There are 32 private maternity homes in the Borough, 12
of them being carried on by practising midwives.
Arrangements have been made with various nursing Associations
in the Borough for their nurses to attend cases of
Measles, Whooping Cough, Influenza, Pneumonia, Ophthalmia
Neonatorum, Infantile Diarrhoea, Puerperal Fever and Puerperal
Pyrexia, at my request. A fee of 1s. 3d. is paid for each
visit to these cases except in Balham where a special grant
of £80 per annum is paid by the Council to the Ranyard Nurses
for the services of the nurse in this area who was appointed
at the request of the Council in 1920. 172 cases were visited
during the year under these arrangements, and 3,146 visits
were made to them as shown in Table XXXIII.

The number of visits made by nurses in 1927 was 3,515
and the decrease is due to the decrease in the number of cases
of Influenza and Pneumonia.