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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, the St. Thomas's Cornwall
Babies' Hospital (vide page 27), and the Fulham Babies' Hospital
(chronic debility and wasting diseases). The Council contribute
an annual sum in the case of the two first named, and a per capita
payment to the last mentioned of these Institutions in respect of
these facilities. Women and children where necessary are referred
from the Ante-Natal and Child Welfare Centres to other appropriate
institutions.
The following is a list of Hospitals and Institutions, including
those to which grant is paid by the Council to which cases were
referred from the Maternity and Child Welfare Clinics during 1929:—

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. They also contribute to the cost of Battersea
unmarried mothers who are received into other homes maintained
by the Association, with the sanction of the Ministry of Health,
on a per capita basis a sum not exceeding £65 per annum.*
The number of cases in St. Mary's House, during the financial
year 1929-30, to the maintenance of which the Council contributed,
was 10, the cost to the Council being £200 15s. 9d.
* This amount was increased in January, 1930, to £100 per annum,
maximum.
t Of this number 173 actually attended.