[Report 1927] / Medical Officer of Health, Cambridgeshire County Council.

  • Cambridgeshire (England). County Council
Date:
1927
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Credit: [Report 1927] / Medical Officer of Health, Cambridgeshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    G of rural parishes now without such ])ro\ision lias !)ceii reduced to 26, with a combined population of 7,700. Apart from intention to practise and cliange of address,, notifications received from midwives numbered 273, against 230 in 1926. They comprised medical help for mother 179, for infant 47, liability to bo a source of infection 10, death, of infant 8, still birth 20, laying out the dead 4, and artificial feeding 5. All cases of rise of temperature, infection, inflammation of eyes, death of mother or infant, and still- birth are the subject of enquiry. It may be noted that no death of a mother \\ as notified in the ]iractice of a midwife during the year, and only two cases of inflammation of the eyes of the infant, both of which were slight. The proportion of total births in the Administrative County to which medical aid for mother or infant was summoned bv midwives in circumstances of difficulty rose V from 5.2 per cent, in 1919 to 9.3 ])er cent, in 1926, and was 12.0 per cent, in 1927. Omitting aid for infants from consideration, the number of mothers thus aided in connection with |)regnancy or confinement was 179 in 1927, against 144 in 1926. Claims for payment of the doctor's fee under the provisions of the ^lidwives Act, 1918, were received in resj'/Cct of 180 cases cut of 226 in which the doctor was summoned to attend cither mother or infant, as compared witli 152 claims received in 1926. Where practicable, some j)ortion of the fee is received from the patient. . A grant is made by the County Council to the Surgical Aid Association for their services in assessing and collecting payments in Cambridge Borough. MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE. The maternity and child welfare scheme for the Borough of Cambridge is administered by the Town Council, and that for the rural area of the County by the County Council. C V- ^