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Report of the Medical Officer of Health for 1931.
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. 65 midwives practise
in the Borough, of whom 19 reside in neighbouring Boroughs.
There are 34 private maternity homes in the Borough, 16
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. 226 cases were visited during the
year under these arrangements, and 3,250 visits were made to
them as shown in Table XXXIII.

The number of visits made by nurses in 1930 was 4,892 and
the decrease is due to the decrease in the number of cases of Measles
and Ophthalmia Neonatorum.