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3. MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE.
(i.) Midwifery and Maternity Services.
A full report on these services was included in my
Report for 1934. There is no change to be recorded.
(ii.) Institutional Provision for Mothers and
Children.
Cases for expected normal delivery may be admitted
to Orsett Public Assistance Institution at a cost to
the Council of approximately £2 2s. Od. per week, and
ambulance charges. In every case the Council recovers
from the patient or her husband the cost of treatment
or a proportion thereof, according to financial circumstances.
Cases of ante or post natal complications are
admitted by arrangement to Queen Mary's Hospital,
Stratford, the cost to the Council being £3 3s. 0d. per
week, plus ambulance charges.
Cases of Puerperal Fever and Puerperal Pyrexia
are admitted to the special Puerperal Fever Wards of
the Essex County Council's Institutions, at Oldchurch
Hospital, Romford, or at Chelmsford, at a cost to this
Authority of 10/- per day, and ambulance fees. In every
case the Council recover from the parents those amounts
which their financial circumstances enable them to pay.
Necessitous cases are treated free of charge.
Sterilised Maternity Outfits are supplied through
the Welfare Centre at cost price or free of charge.
Domestic help is also provided by the Council where
necessary.
(iii.) Health Visiting.
Visits paid by the Health Visitors daring the year
are as follows:—
To expectant mothers 97
To infants under 1 year:
(a) First visits 484
(b) Re-visits 1445
To infants, 1-5 years 1521
3547