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Aid Association; the Prisoners' Aid Society; The Diocesan
Rescue Workers Society; The Factory Girls' Holiday Fund;
The Industrial Law Committee; The Church Army, Banner
Street; The Queen's Nurses, 23, Bloomsbury Square; The Nurses
in connection with Churches, Chapels and Missions; The Gough
Street Medical Mission ; The Baptist Deaconesses' Home; The
Brunswick Home for Wasting Babies; St. Barnabas Home,
Lloyd Square; The various Crfeches in the Borough; The
Cumming Street and King Square Dinner Centres.
5. The Public Health Department supplies the following
details at cost price to mothers, gratis to poor mother:—Tubeless
sanitary feeding bottles, special rubber teats, weighted milk
jug covers, cot covers, bristle brushes, drop tubes, woollen vests,
pneumonia jackets and "insbury Cream." Disinfectant soap
is given on request. The bristle brushes are for cleaning out
milk bottles. The drop tubes are for the treatment of eye
affections in the newly born. The "Finsbury Cream "a
special form of fat food for wasting and delicate children. It
has been found of great service. The babies take it readily.
The woollen vests are knitted by school children in the district
by the kindness and courtesy of the head teachers, and from
directions issued and devised by the Lady Sanitary Inspector,
who buys the wool and attends the schools to see that the
knitting is satisfactorily accomplished on the first occasion.
Over two-thousand vests have been distributed in the Borough,
knitted in this way by school children, girls' clubs and private
persons.
The pneumonia jackets are made by the Public Health Staff,
by the mothers who attend the weighing centres, and by philanthropic
ladies.
"Layettes" for babies are given out of a private fund.
The Council issues leaflets on infant feeding, summer diarrhoea,
and measles, and a booklet on infant care and management
Thousands of these are given gratis each year to the mothers
of recently born children. The leaflets on summer diarrhoea,