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In 1923 the Home was enlarged. An annexe was
built in the garden, providing three bedrooms and a
bathroom for the staff and thus enabling an additional
ward to be opened in the Home itself. The accommodation
was thus increased to ten beds. Since then the
admissions have been as follows :—
Fourth Year (1923) 189
Fifth Year (1924) 176
Sixth Year (1925) 203
The Home has been extremely fortunate in that it
has enjoyed the services of the same medical officer
and the same matron since it was opened .This undoubtedly
has led to a feeling of confidence amongst the
mothers, and this is fully borne out by the number of
women who have been in the Home on more than one
occasion and by the recommendations which are given
by one patient to another. All candidates for the
Maternity Home are required to attend regularly at
the ante-natal clinic and only the apparently normal
cases are admitted to the Home. Abnormalities and
cases likely to require special medical attention are as
a rule referred to Queen Charlotte's Hospital or one
of the other large London hospitals, where there is a
resident physician. The primary object of the Home
is to provide for the confinements of persons living
under unsatisfactory home conditions where it is
impossible to conduct the confinement with safety or
even decency.
In 1921 the Home was recognised by the Central
Midwives Board as a training school for midwives, and
all pupils have been successful, up to date, in obtaining
the C.M.B. certificate ; there has never been a failure.