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Roscoe Street ; the St. Barnabas Home, Lloyd Street, Lloyd
Square; the Home for Wasting Babies, Brunswick Place, Hoxton;
the Gough Street Medical Mission ; the Northampton Estate Sick
and Provident Society; the Royal General Dispensary, 26,
Bartholomew Close; the Fore Street Dispensary; the Claremont
Mission Crèche; the St. Agnes Crèche, 48 Amwell Street; the
Hope Mission Crèche, Banner Street; the Guinness Buildings
Crèche, Lever Street; the Field Lane Crèche; the Mothers' Guild
and weighing centre attached to the Peel Mission, 32, St. John's
Lane; the School for Mothers and dinner centre, 26, Cumming
Street; the Dinner Centre, Employment Bureau, and Home of
Service, 36, King Square; the School for Mothers, St. Anne's;
the Association for the Nursing of the Sick Poor, 23, Bloomsbury
Square. Many of the Churches also support nurses.
There are classes for sewing and cutting out childrens'
garments in connection with the schools for mothers, and the
London County Council evening classes held in the elementary
schools. This list is quite incomplete, and illustrates the exceptionally
lavish manner in which Finsbury is endowed with
voluntary agencies for relief. Some of the above Societies have
milk funds, boot funds, and clothing funds. Some receive discarded
and second-hand clothing for distribution amongst the
necessitous poor. An additiona' list has already been given of
the agencies to which the public health staff refer cases for help.
What More may be Dene.—The following proposals are
submitted for careful consideration. Some of them have already
been noticed in previous pages.
1. The establishment of dinner centres for mothers and expectant
mothers.
2. The provision of Crèches or Public Nurseries.
3. The founding of Schools for little nurses.
4. Additional Schools for mothers, Maternity Clubs, Cuttingout
Classes, attached to churches, chapels, or missions. The
cards, booklets, and leaflets already used by the Public Health