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Borough Maternity Home, 706, Fulham Road,
S.W.6.—The Home, which was opened in January,
1920, is intended for the reception of women resident
in Fulham who have no proper accommodation for
their confinement in their own homes. Applications
for admission are made on a prescribed form three
months before the probable date of the confinement,
and the applicants must attend one of the Ante-natal
Centres. Only apparently normal cases are admitted
to the institution. Dr. Ruby Thomson is in medical
charge and Dr. Wakeford is occasionally called in for
emergency cases. The work of the Home is linked
up with that of the Ante-natal and other centres,
and the Matron and Sister both attend the Ante-natal
clinics at Greyhound Road.
The Home accommodates 10 patients and an
isolation room with one bed is available. The staff
consists of three midwives and two pupil midwives,
all of whom are trained nurses, and the Home is
recognised by the Central Midwives Board as a training
school for midwives. The domestic staff includes
two resident maids, one non-resident maid and a
part-time daily woman.
The minimum fee charged is £3 for the fortnight,
but in exceptional circumstances the Maternity and
Child Welfare Committee permit patients to be admitted
below this figure. In one case a fee of £2
was charged for the fortnight. The average charge
for the fortnight was £4 8s. 2d., and the highest was
£7 15s. Od. The nett cost per patient to the Council
was £1 18s. 7d. for the financial year 1926-27.
The Home was enlarged in 1923, and the number
of admissions each year since then have been as
follows :—
1923 189
1924 176
1925 203
1926 195