Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Battersea Borough]
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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, the St. Thomas's Cornwall
Babies' Hospital (vide page 35), and the Fulham Babies' Hospital
(chronic debility and wasting diseases). The Council contribute
an annual sum in the case of the two first named, and a per capita
payment to the last mentioned of these Institutions in respect of
these facilities. Women and children where necessary are referred
from the Ante-Natal and Child Welfare Centres to other appropriate
institutiofts.
The following is a list of the Hospitals and Institutions, including those to which grant is paid by the Council to which cases were referred from the Maternity and Child Welfare Clinics during 1930:—
St. Thomas's Hospital | 31 |
Victoria Hospital, Chelsea | 296 |
St. James's Hospital | 21 |
Bolingbroke Hospital | 9 |
Borough Tuberculosis Dispensary | 3 |
Fulham Babies' Hospital | 2 |
St. Thomas's Cornwall Babies' Hostel | 3421 |
Invalid Children's Aid Association | 6 |
Moorfields Eye Hospital | 1 |
Guy's Hospital (dental cases) | 22 |
Vincent Square Hospital | 2 |
735 |
Southwark Diocesan Homes.
For some years past the Council has contributed towards the
cost of the maintenance during the period before and after confinement
of unmarried mothers resident in the 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 £100 per annum.
* Of this number 258 actually attended.