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Slides 70
Cultures 62
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Slides from eye discharges in babies 9
The above brief extracts from Dr. Roxborough's report of
the first few months' work carried out at the V.D. Department
show that a most promising start has been made, and the
valuable records that are being carefully compiled will be of the
greatest interest in connection with the developments that are
now taking place in regard to the provision for women and
children of adequate facilities in maternity hospitals and antenatal
clinics for diagnosis and treatment of cases of V.D.
There can be no doubt, in my opinion, that this part of
the Maternity and Child Welfare scheme will prove to be a
most valuable addition to the health services which the Council
have established. The disastrous effects of this disease group
on the health of the expectant mother and her unborn child is
shown in the evidence contained in the report of the Departmental
Committee appointed to enquire into Venereal Disease.
These effects are largely preventable, and the increasing interest
which is being taken in the provision of adequate facilities for
the diagnosis and treatment at ante-natal clinics and V.D.
departments of maternity hospitals of the expectant mother is
a most encouraging sign of the awakened conscience of the
nation to its duties and responsibilities in this respect.
Borough Maternity Hospital.
The Borough Maternity Hospital, 19 and 20 Bolingbroke
Grove, Wandsworth Common, was officially opened by the
Mayor and Mayoress (Mr. and Mrs. A. Winfield) on the 5th
March. The Institution was opened for the reception of patients
two or three weeks earlier. The hospital, which is admirably
situated in one of the healthiest parts of London, with its
frontage directly on to Wandsworth Common, consists of
2 large mansions-—"Elmhurst" and "Westwood Tower"
—which have been converted and adapted to serve as a
modern lying-in hospital. The houses are connected by a
covered way, affording direct communication, enabling the
staff to pass to and fro without having to cross the
hospital grounds. The first-mentioned house "Elmhurst" is
the administrative block, and, in addition to housing the nursing
and domestic staffs', contains two wards, each of 5 beds, for the
reception of special cases sent in from the V.D. department.
The other house "Westwood Tower" is the lying-in hospital
proper, and has 5 wards, disposed on 2 floors, containing in all
20 beds. The wards are spacious, excellently lighted and