[Report 1926] / Medical Officer of Health, Cambridgeshire County Council.

  • Cambridgeshire (England). County Council.
Date:
1926
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Credit: [Report 1926] / Medical Officer of Health, Cambridgeshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the number of mothers thus aided in connection with pregnancy or confinement was 144 in 1926, against loo in 1925 Claims for payment of the< doctor s fee undei the provisions of the Midwives Act, 1918, were received in respect of 152 cases out of 188 in which the doctor was summoned to attend either mother or infant, as compared with 153 claims received in 1925. Where practicable some portion 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. The Midwives and Maternity Homes Act of 1926 removes the necessity for proving that an uncertified woman practising as a midwife does so “ habitually and for gain. This removes an obstacle which stood in the way of conviction for unregistered practice. The offence now is for any woman not certified under the Act to attend a woman in childbirth except under the direction and personal supervision of a doctor, unless it can be proved that the case was genuinely one of sudden or urgent necessity. This should prevent any arrangement under which an unregistered person attends a confinement by herself, calls in a doctor afterwards, and pleads in protection that she has conducted the case under his direction. 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. Cambridge Borough.—Under the Notification of Births Act, 1907, there were notified 894 births, or 96.3 per cent, of the total 928 births registered, against 99.2 per cent, iu