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The health of the children has been satisfactory.
Dr. J. H. Gibbens is Medical Officer to the Nursery and makes a
weekly inspection of the children.
(3) Chelsea Mothercraft Training Home.—Manor Street, S.W.3.
Chairman of Executive Committee: Mrs. C. M. Vaughan-Morgan.
Hon. Secretary : Miss Violet Trench.
The Mothercraft Training Home is controlled by a voluntary Committee.
It provides accommodation for six nursing mothers, with their babies,
on the occurrence of lactation difficulties, also for 12 babies suffering
from digestive disorders and for three fatherless breast-fed babies whose
mothers are employed as maids in the home. In addition, a nursery is
available to which nursing mothers may come during the day for test
feeds or observation. The wards open on to a balcony and roof garden.
The staff consists of three honorary Consultants, a Medical Director,
a Matron, two Sisters, three Staff Nurses, Secretary (part time) and
seventeen pupil nurses. These latter are trained in accordance with the
principles evolved by the Mothercraft Training Society, Cromwell House,
Highgate.
The Home is efficiently administered and the arrangements instituted
for the treatment of lactation cases have proved eminently satisfactory.
Three members of the Borough Council and the Medical Officer of
Health are members of the Executive Committee.
The following Table No. 29 shows the work carried out in the Home
during the past year:—