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2. The Leysian Medical Mission, City Road. Patients are
seen by the Staff on Tuesdays and Fridays, and are
charged 1d. for medicine, 1d. for a bottle, and 2d. for cod
liver oil and malt.
3. Bunhill Medical Mission, Memorial Buildings, Roscoe
Street. Patients attend on Mondays and Thursdays.
4. The Northampton Estates Sick and Provident Society has
a maternity self-help branch.
The Marquis of Northampton maintains a nurse for
the help of tenants on the Northampton Estate.
5. The St. Barnabas Home, Lloyd Street, Lloyd Square,
W.C., is conducted by the Sisters of Bethany for the
medical and surgical treatment of in-patients and outpatients
who are expected to contribute according to
their means.
Six beds are reserved for the poor of the Parish of
the Holy Redeemer. Cases sent in by the Sisters are
received without payment.
6. The Peel Mission, 32, St. John's Lane, has a Mothers'
Guild, and is opened on Thursday afternoons as a
Weighing Centre, when nursing mothers may obtain
suitable advice for themselves and for their babies.
7. The Home for Wasting Babies, Brunswick Place, Hoxton
(Hon. Physician, Dr. Stanley Simpson), received 18
Finsbury babies in 1911, and has been of very great
service in rearing delicate and motherless infants.
8. Gough Street Medical Mission is associated with the
Baptist Deaconesses' Mission, 37, Mecklenburgh Square,
W.C. The Hon, Medical Officer is Dr. Fercy Lush.
It is open on Friday afternoons only, and is much
resorted to by Clerkenwell mothers. The Sisters from
the Baptist Deaconesses' Home, some of whom are
trained nurses, visit the homes of the sick poor.