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4.—Maternity Homes.
(a) West Norwood Maternity Home and Ante-natal
Clinic, 106-108, Knight's Hill, West Norwood.
In addition to the above-mentioned Centres, Crèfcches, Infants
Clinics and Maternity Home, there are also included in the Lambeth
Maternity and Child Welfare Scheme the following :—
1. The Maternity Departments of —
(a) St. Thomas's Hospital (Westminster Bridge).
(b) The General Lying-in Hospital (York Road).
(c) The Clapham Maternity Hospital (Jeffrey's Road),
N.B. In connection with (a) and (b) Infants Consultation
Centres have been established at the Hospitals concerned
MATERNITY WARDS FOR WOMEN SUFFERING
FROM VENEREAL DISEASES.
Arrangements have been made by the Local Government
Board for suitable cases of the unmarried class, suffering from
Venereal Diseases and pregnant, to be admitted under section 80 of
the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, on the recommendation of
Metropolitan Medical Officers of Health, into Thavies Inn Hospital
(under the jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Asylums Board) in the
same way as patients are admitted into the other hospitals of that
Board. The accommodation is, however, somewhat limited at
the present time, but will nevertheless prove of value—such an
institution being needed for the proper treatment (ante-natal,
post-natal and obstetric) of such cases.
TRAINING OF MIDWIVES, MATERNITY AND INFANT
WELFARE CENTRES AND DAY NURSERIES.
Important Memoranda have been issued by the Ministry of
Health during 1919 dealing with the proper and efficient training
of Midwives, the establishment of Maternity and Infant Welfare
Centres and the management of Day Nurseries, together with the
giving of grants connected therewith.