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Certain of the children attending the Somerford
Street Day Nursery also attend the Council's Welfare
Centre every week for light treatment and some are
sent away to country homes during the summer.
ORPHANS.
There is a branch of the National Children's Home
and Orphanage situated in Bonner Road.
MATERNITY.
Public.
The Borough Council has two Maternity Clinics,
one at Cornwall Road, and one at St. Matthew's
Institute, Hereford Street, at which a variety of work
for maternal welfare is carried on. The Council also
employs a midwife, who resides in the borough. (For
further particulars see the section of this report dealing
with Maternity and Child Welfare).
London County Council: There are 18 beds in
the Maternity ward in Bethnal Green Hospital. Dr.
W. P. Greenwood informs me that 247 maternity cases
were dealt with in the year. An ante-natal clinic is
held weekly for women intending to enter the hospital
for confinement and 226 women made 542 attendances
at the Clinic.
Other.
There are 2 private midwives living and practising
in the borough while about 6 others who reside outside
also frequently practice in the borough.