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When an assessment has been made, one collection card is forwarded to the mother and
another to the lady collector. Contributions made by the mother are recorded on each card, and
after payments have been completed, both cards are forwarded to the Medical Officer of Health,
when a receipt for the whole amount is sent to the mother.
Regular weekly payments in advance towards the cost of the confinement in the Maternity
Home are encouraged, and such payments usually commence as soon as the mother has been
informed that her application for admission has been accepted.
(b) Mothers not in attendance at an Infant Welfare Centre.
Patients not in attendance at an Infant Welfare Centre make their payments direct to the
Borough Treasurer, Town Hall, W.8.
Removal of Emergency Cases.
In cases of emergency, application for an ambulance may be made to the Metropolitan
Asylums Board (Telephone No. City 7200). The charge for this ambulance is defrayed by the
Borough. Council and reported to the Maternity and Child Welfare Committee who may require
the patient to contribute part or whole of the fee if her circumstances allow.
Registration of Births.
Births are registered as having taken place at No. 28, Marloes Road.
Discharge of Patients.
On discharge of a patient from the Home the Medical Superintendent's report is forwarded
to the Medical Officer of Health, who transmits to the doctor originally sending the case such
information in regard to the after-care as may be desirable.
Statement of Work Done, etc.
The demand for accommodation in the Maternity Home has been greater than was anticipated
and the provision made by the Council is proving exceedingly popular with mothers in the
Borough.
During the last three months of the year, there were thirty-five applications accepted by the
Maternity and Child Welfare Committee and thirteen of the expectant mothers were admitted
before December 31st. In eight cases the children were born and the mothers had taken their
discharge before the end of the year. The assessments made in respect of the thirty-five
applications accepted totalled £85 14s. Od. and the payments received by the Council before the
end of the year totalled £40 16s. 3d. In ten cases the assessment had been completely paid by
December 31st. These figures are satisfactory when the late date at which the institution was
opened is remembered.
Shortly after the end of the year applications came in more rapidly and on one or two
occasions all the beds have been occupied.
Several of the patients on discharge have written letters of gratitude to officers of the Council
and sisters at the Infant Welfare Centres and all have spoken very highly of the care and
attention they have received from the Medical Superintendent and his staff.
The Guardians' account for the three months during which the Home was open amounts
to £48 0s. Od.
QUEEN CHARLOTTE'S HOSPITAL MIDWIFERY CENTRE AND ANTE-NATAL
CLINIC. No. 176, LADBROKE GROVE.
Midwifery Arrangements.
The number of home confinements attended by the staff at the Queen Charlotte's District
Nurses' Home during 1924 was 873, and 811 of these were Kensington cases.
Ante-Natal Clinic.
This Clinic was opened by the Queen Charlotte's Hospital authorities in 1921 at their
District Nurses' Home, which is situated a little north of the Ladbroke Grove Railway Station—a
point easily accessible to the majority of North Kensington mothers. The record of work for 1924
is as follows:—

The medical work at this ante-natal clinic is performed by the doctors attached to the
Hospital.