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SECTION II.— PROVISION OF HEALTH SERVICES IN
THE BOROUGH.
HOSPITALS.
The Hospitals available for and situated within the Borough are
enumerated on page 11. None of these Hospitals are supported wholly
or in part by the Borough Council.
INSTITUTIONAL PROVISION FOR UNMARRIED MOTHERS,
ILLEGITIMATE INFANTS AND HOMELESS CHILDREN.
The Day Servants Hostel, 29-33, Danvers Street, Chelsea, provides
accommodation for 15 unmarried mothers and their infants. At the
Hostel for Discharged Women Prisoners and Police Court Cases, 497,
King's Road, Chelsea, unmarried mothers, but not illegitimate children,
are received. There is accommodation for 15 cases in this Hostel.
Homeless children are cared for in the Guardians' Institution.
AMBULANCE FACILITIES.
(а) Infectious Cases. Under the Public Health (London) Act, persons
in London suffering from certain notifiable diseases may be conveyed
without payment to a hospital of the Metropolitan Asylums Board. The
Board's ambulances are also available, on payment, for the conveyance
of persons suffering from infectious disease to places elsewhere in the
metropolitan area.
(b) Non-infectious and Accident Cases. The efficient ambulance service
of the London County Council is available for cases of accident,
sudden illness and also for maternity cases. The ambulances of the
M.A.B. may also be utilized, on payment, for the removal of non-infectious
cases to hospitals or homes.
CLINICS AND TREATMENT CENTRES.
(a) Chelsea Health Society and School for Mothers. Chairman of
Executive Committee: Lady Mond. Hon. Sec.: Miss M. Bowden-Smith.
This voluntary Society, with headquarters at 1, Manor Street, adjoining
the Town Hall, maintains the Maternity and Child Welfare Centres in
the Borough. Clinics are held at the Society's premises (1, Manor Street
and 484, King's Road, S.W.).
During the year 1926, four infant clinics were held weekly—three at
Manor Street and one at King's Road. One ante-natal clinic was also
held weekly at Manor Street. Details of the work carried out will
be found on page 67.