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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.
(a) The Day Servants Hostel, 29-33, Danvers Street, Chelsea, provides
accommodation for 15 unmarried mothers and their infants. Cases are
not received until after birth of the child. Daily work is provided by the
Hostel and the mothers reside with their babies at night.
(b) The Hostel for Discharged Woman Prisoners and Police Court
Cases, 497, King's Road, Chelsea, provides accommodation for 20 women
on discharge from prison or if found homeless. Unmarried mothers, but
not illegitimate infants, are received. An expectant mother is retained
until confinement approaches. Arrangements are then made for her
admission to Hospital. If she is subsequently re-admitted to the Hostel,
the infant is settled with a foster mother.
(c) St. Theresa's Shelter, 43, Smith Street, Chelsea, is a Rescue Home
which provides accommodation for nine girls. Cases are detained for
some weeks until some suitable employment can be found. In the case
of an expectant mother, arrangements are made for her transfer to an
appropriate Home or Institution elsewhere in the Metropolis.
Homeless children in general are cared for in the Guardians' Institution.
AMBULANCE FACILITIES.
(a) 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.