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(3 ) HOSTEL FOR AILINS BABIES — PERRAN LODGE ,
EGLINTON ROAD. This Hostel was opened on the 17th December,
1918, and maintained by the Jewel Fund and a grant of £600 made
by the Borough Council
Accommodation is provided for 20 cases.
The Staff consists of a Matron, 2 Staff Nurses,1
Nurse, 1 Probationer, Cook, Housemaid, Wardmaid, and a daily
woman.
A charge is made of 10/- per week per child and the
patients are under the care of Dr, Dodd of Blackheath, who acts
as Honorary Medical Officer.
The Borough Council resolved to assume responsibility
for the Hostel from the 1st, April 1919. The following four
members of the Voluntary Sub-Committee have been co-opted on to
the Maternity and Child Welfare Committee and act as a visiting
sub-Committee. viz:-
Lady Kathleen Lindsey
Mrs. Callaghan
Mrs, Melville-Smith
Miss Gregory.
(4) A DAY NURSERY was established in 1916 by the
Advisory Committee for Women Munition Workers. A Special Committee
was appointed with Lady Henry as Chairman and the
Medical Officer of Health as a member. A grant of £100 was
made by the Borough Council, The Day Nursery Committee pays
£50 a year- for the services of Dr. Mackenzie, who conducts an
Infant Consultation every week at the Nursery and acts as Consulting
Medical Officer.
Daring 1918 there was an average of 47 infants in the
Nursery, viz., 15 under one year and 32 from one to five years.
(5) MILK FOR MOTHERS. Under the Milk (Mothers and
Children) Order, 1918,the Council authorised the Medical Officer
to supply necessitous mothers and babies with milk at a
reduced cost, or free of cost. 45 persons were supplied during
the year, This free milk is only supplied after careful
enquiries have been made into the finanoial circumstances of the
family, and the Medical Officer of Health must sign the neoessary
certificate.
(6) DRIED MILK. Owing to the scarcity of milk during
the War, the Food Controller made arrangements for the supply of
Dried Milk to Local Authorities. A stock of "Cow and Gate"
milk is kept in the Public Health Department and sold, at cost
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