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Report of the Medical Officer of Health for 1929.
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. 44 midwives practise
in the Borough, of whom 17 reside in neighbouring Boroughs.
There are 34 private maternity homes in the Borough, 14
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. 291 cases were visited
during the year under these arrangements, and 4,453 visits
were made to them as shown in Table XXXIV.
During the year Nursing Associations were formed on the
Streatham Vale and Roehampton Estates. Application for
grant was made to the Council by both these Associations and it
was decided to make a grant of £20 to each of them.