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Hospital Provision.
In addition to the provision of Midwifery Services, Hospital
and District, the Council have provided facilities for the needs of
children requiring special Hospital treatment by arrangement with
the Victoria Children's Hospital, Chelsea, and the Fulham Babies'
Hospital (chronic debility and wasting diseases). The Council
contribute an annual sum in the case of the former, and a per
capita payment to the latter Institution in respect of these facilities.
Women and children where necessary are referred from the AnteNatal
and Child Welfare Centres to other appropriate Institutions.

Southwark Diocesan Homes.
For some years past the Council has contributed towards the
cost of the maintenance during the period following confinement
of unmarried mothers resident in their district and their children,
by the Southwark Diocesan Association for Preventive and Rescue
work, in St. Mary's House, Macaulay Road, Wandsworth, which
is an Institution affiliated to the Council's Maternity and Child
Welfare Scheme.
During the year under report, a request was received from the
Association that the Council should contribute to the cost of
Battersea unmarried mothers who were received into other homes
maintained by the Association, and with the sanction of the Ministry
of Health, the Council agreed to contribute on a per capita basis
a sum not exceeding £65 per annum for this object.