§ 116. Mr. Masonasked the Minister of Health what suggestions have been made to the Barnsley local authority by his Department to improve the maternity and child welfare services of the town; arid what assistance he is prepared to give to the hospitals concerned to help reduce the still-birth rate figures.
§ Miss PittThe suggestions were of a detailed nature and related to the selection of cases for hospital confinement, the co-ordination of hospital and local health authority maternity services, and co-operation between general practitioners and midwives.
As regards the second part of the Question, the present plans for extending St. Helen Hospital include a net addition of 15 maternity beds.