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Applications for admission shall be made to the
Medical Officer of Health on the prescribed form,
three months before the date of the expected confinement,
and he shall be responsible for the selection
of patients.
Before a case is accepted for admission the applicant
shall, when required, consult the Assistant Medical
Officer of Health at the ante-natal clinic.
The charge for attendance during the confinement
and the maintenance in the home for 14 days shall
be 30s., which must be paid before admission. In the
event of the patient remaining in the Home by the
permission of the Medical Officer of Health more than
14 days, the charge shall be 15s. for each week, or
part of a week.
Patients may, if they so desire, make arrangements
(to be approved by the Medical Officer of Health) to
be attended by their own doctor, but in such cases
the doctor's fee, in addition to the charge for maintenance
in the Home, must be paid by the patient,
and the Council will not accept any responsibility for
the payment.
Applicants shall undertake, if admitted, to obey
all regulations which may be made by the Council
for the conduct of the institution."
Home Helps.—No arrangements have yet been made
for the provision of "home helps," to do the work of
the house and attend to the other children of the
family during the mother's absence from home. It is
very questionable if an official "help" would be always
acceptable, and it will probably be advisable, in
many cases, to allow the patient to arrange with a
friend or relative to undertake the care of her household,
and for the Council, if satisfied as regards the
suitability of the help, to bear a proportion of the cost.
Stillborn Children.—Orders were given for the burial
in the Fulham Cemeteries of 102 stillborn children,
being in the proportion of one stillborn child to every
29-5 living. Of these 89 were notified. No