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Institutional.
(1) The Rochester Diocesan Society for Befriending
Women and Girls has a home at 29, Ravensbourne Road,
where unmarried expectant mothers are received and
arrangements made for their confinements in Maternity
Homes, or in the Farnborough Hospital (Public Assistance
Institution). Subsequent to confinement, the mothers and
babies are received into the Home, and kept there until
employment is found for the mother. If the employment
is not of such a nature as to allow the mother to care
for her child, foster-mothers are found by the Society.
The Home has no subsidy from public funds.
(2) The Blind Hostel, Southlands Road, is a Hostel
maintained by the London Association for the Blind, and
receives no subsidy out of the rates.
Ambulance Facilities.
(1) For Infectious Disease cases: The West Kent
Joint Hospital Board has motor ambulances stationed at
the Hospital, Skym Corner, Bromley Common, for the
removal of infectious disease cases.
(2) For Non-Infectious and Accident cases. A motor
ambulance, the property of the Council, is available at
any hour for the removal of accident cases to hospitals, and
it may be a requisitioned for the removal of cases of sickness
of a non-infectious nature, the fee being remitted in
necessitous cases.
Laboratory Facilities.
The arrangement for the testing of throat swabs at
the West Kent Infectious Disease Hospital continues to
work efficiently and with despatch. The facilities at
Maidstone provided through the Kent County Council
are used for the testing of all other material other than
urgent Diphtheria swabs.
Clinics and Centres.
The School Clinic, Station Road, was opened in 1928.
The situation of the Clinic in the Northern portion of the