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Hospital Provision.
In addition to the provision of Midwifery Services, Hospital
and District, the Council have provided facilities for the needs of
children requiring special Hospital treatment by arrangement with
the Victoria Children's Hospital, Chelsea, and the Fulham Babies'
Hospital (chronic debility and wasting diseases). The Council
contribute an annual sum in the case of the former, and a per
capita payment to the latter Institution in respect of these facilities.
Women and children where necessary are referred from the AnteNatal
and Child Welfare Centres to other appropriate Institutions.

Southwark Diocesan Homes.
For some years past the Council has contributed towards the
cost of the maintenance during the period following confinement
of unmarried mothers resident in their district and their children,
by the Southwark Diocesan Association for Preventive and Rescue
work, in St. Mary's House, Macaulay Road, Wandsworth, which
is an Institution affiliated to the Council's Maternity and Child
Welfare Scheme. They also contribute to the cost of Battersea
unmarried mothers who are received into other homes maintained
by the Association, with the sanction of the Ministry of Health,
on a per capita basis a sum not exceeding £65 per annum.
Milk for Necessitous Persons.
Under the provisions of the Maternity and Child Welfare
Act, 1918, milk is provided by the Council for necessitous expectant
and nursing mothers and children under 5 years of age. The
following table gives particulars relating to the number of persons