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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 12. 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 noninfectious
cases to hospitals or homes.
CLINICS AND TREATMENT CENTRES.
(a.) Chelsea Health Society and School for Mothers.—Chairman
of Executive Committee : The Lady Melchett, D.B.E., Hon. Sec. :
Miss M. Bowden-Smith.