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attend at Borough Council Clinics in connection with the supply of extra
nourishment, the Maternity and Child Welfare Committee agreed to accept
the signature of the Medical Superintendent of St. Andrew's Hospital,
or his Deputy, recommending supplies of milk to persons coming within
the Council's scale.
Proposed Convalescent Home.
The Maternity and Child Welfare Committee considered a letter
from the General Purposes Sub-Committee of the Metropolitan Boroughs
Standing Joint Committee with regard to the provision by Queen
Charlotte's Maternity Hospital of a Seaside Convalescent Home for the
reception of mothers after confinement and their babies.
The matter was referred to the General Purposes Committee of the
Council, who authorised their representative on the Standing Joint
Committee to say that the Poplar Borough Council were not prepared to
make themselves responsible for an annual payment for a bed, but were
prepared to send cases to the Home at the fees stated in the report
submitted.
Invalid Children's Aid Association.
The Maternity and Child Welfare Committee received a letter from
the Poplar Branch of the Invalid Children's Aid Association stating that
their grants from the United Services Fund would cease at the end of
October, 1934, and that last year they received £266 on behalf of
ex-Service men's children. They desired to know whether the Borough
Council would grant financial assistance, especially with regard to
convalescent treatment for children under five years of age.
Upon the recommendation of the Committee, the Council agreed to
co-operate with the Invalid Children's Aid Association in the provision
of convalescent treatment for children under the age of five years on the
following conditions:—
(a) That an amount of £30 (affording 4 weeks' convalescent treatment
for 15 cases, at 10s. a week), be included in the annual estimates
and earmarked for this purpose, and that the sum of £10 be added
to the current estimates;