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The arrangements made with the Kensington Board of Guardians in 1922, under which
women who show early signs of what might prove to be puerperal fever can be admitted to the St.
Mary Abbot's Hospital without delay and without the doctor making an official notification, have
been made use of on a number of occasions with the result that women in the preliminary stages of
that disease have been treated by the Medical Superintendent with success and in a way which is
not practicable in the patients' homes.
On page 35 of this report, there is an account of the Council's Maternity Home which was
opened on 1st October last.
The provision of this Maternity Home completes an organisation, secured by co.operation
between various bodies and extension of their efforts, which aims at safety in confinement. The
organisation is adequate and efficient, and all that remains is to induce working.class mothers to
avail themselves in larger numbers of the facilities which have been provided for the protection of
their health by the Council and the various authorities working with them.