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Ante-Natal Clinics.—These are held at 10 a.m. as follows :—
Borough Hall, Royal Hill Tuesday.
Conduit House, 236, Trafalgar Road Wednesday.
105, Shooters Hill Road Friday.
Application has also been made to the Ministry of Health for
permission to hold an additional Clinic at the Charlton Vale Wesleyan
School-room, Woolwich Road.
Each of these Centres is attended by a Medical Officer together
with a Health Visitor in charge, and a Clerk, either a lady working
voluntarily, or a member of the staff.
All ratepayers in the Borough are entitled to attend these
Clinics, and obtain the benefit of this Council's Maternity expert.
In fact, it is hoped that much greater advantage will be taken of
these facilities in the future as, in my opinion, this line of attack
holds out the greatest hope in connection with the future work of
the Public Health Department, seeing that by its means, prospective
mothers may have many serious conditions prevented, whilst
in connection with others which are not preventable but are thus
foreseen, particular arrangements are able to be made for dealing
with the same, and thus very often much pain, suffering and lifelong
misery may be prevented.
Maternity Home.—This Council's Maternity Home is situate
at Kidbrooke House, 78, Shooters Hill Road.
At present we are authorised for 12 beds. The Home up to
the present has been much appreciated, so much so, that on occasions
we have had 25 mothers with their babies in the Home at one time,
and a scheme for extension of the Home up to 22 beds has been
approved both by the Council and the Ministry of Health, and is in
process of being carried out.
The Maternity Home is open to all ratepayers in the Borough
on payment. No cases are admitted free, the lowest charge being
at the rate of one guinea per week, whilst those patients who can
afford it, or desire special accommodation in the way of a private
bed, can obtain the same on payment of five guineas per week or
upwards, in accordance with their requirements. All persons
desiring accommodation, except those who propose to come in as
private patients paying the full fee, have to make application on a
special form. All these applications are considered week by week
at the Sub-Committee before mentioned, and the charges to be