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Battersea 1931
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Battersea Borough]
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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 1931:—
| 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 1931:— | |
| St. Thomas's Hospital | 14 |
| Victoria Hospital, Chelsea | 335 |
| St. James's Hospita | 2 |
| Bolingbroke Hospital | 3 |
| Battersea General Hospital | 1 |
| Borough Tuberculosis Dispensary | 4 |
| South London Hospital for Women | 5 |
| St. Thomas's Cornwall Babies' Hostel | 377* |
| Invalid Children's Aid Association | 8 |
| Chelsea Women's Hospital | 1 |
| Vincent Square Hospital | 4 |
| 754 | |
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.
The number of cases in St. Mary's House, during the year
1931, to the maintenance of which the Council contributed, was 3,
the cost to the Council being £121 18s. 0d.
In the case of other homes, the number of cases during the
year was 11, and the additional contribution of the Council amounted
to £83 18s. 9d.
Home Helps.
Facilities are provided by the Council in suitable cases for
assistance in the home during the mother's lying-in period, and a
list of women recognised for the service is kept by the Health
Visiting staff, from which applicants are permitted to choose a
suitable woman, who is paid at the usual rates.
For reasons referred to in previous Annual Reports this service
has not been availed of to the extent anticipated, and during 1931
no application for the services of a home help was received.
* Of this number 227 actually attended.