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Additional Facilities available at Welfare Centres.
(i) Home Helps. The system of Home Helps inaugurated
in May, 1928, by the Council has again proved its usefulness
during the year. 84 applications were received (2 subsequently
cancelled), 23 being emergency cases.
The expense to the Council was only £41 9s. 3d., and from
every point of view the money could scarcely have been better
spent.
(ii) Sterile Maternity Outfits. These outfits contain sterilised
dressings, etc., and are sold at cost price at every Welfare Centre.
In the course of the year 453 of these outfits were sold. The
Council has sanctioned the issue of these outfits free or at reduced
cost in cases of poverty.
23 applications (1 since cancelled) for assistance towards the
purchase of these outfits from necessitous cases were received in the
course of the year at a cost to the Council of £2 11s. 3d
(iii) Sterilization of Bed Linen, etc. During the year 35
applications only were received from the whole area in connection
with the service which is entirely free.
(iv) Co-operation with Voluntary Hospitals. There is
now an active liason between the almoners of the various hospitals
in the Metropolis and the Public Health Department in respect
of the Lambeth Mothers who apply for both in- and out-patient
treatment for their confinements. Such cases are visited by the
Council's Health Visitors, who refer mothers to their local Welfare
Centre for advice for themselves, and for patterns of baby clothing,
etc., and full reports are forwarded to the almoner of the hospital
concerned. The total number of these cases visited and reported
upon during 1933 was 1,850, distributed as follows:—
Institutions
outside the
Borough of
Lambeth
St. Thomas's Hospital 827
King's College Hospital 206
General Lying-in Hospital 382
Lambeth Hospital 215
Westminster Hospital 71
Charing Cross Hospital 39
St. George's Hospital 14
Dulwich Hospital 64
Middlesex Hospital 5
Elizabeth Garratt Anderson Hospital 1
Royal Free Hospital 4
Guy's Hospital 1
University College Hospital 1
Queen Charlotte's Hospital 1
St. Giles' Hospital 18
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