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Battersea 1933
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Battersea Borough]
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The following is a list of the Hospitals and Institutions, includ-ing those to which grant is paid by the Council, to which cases were referred from the Maternity and Child Welfare Clinics during 1933:—
| The following is a list of the Hospitals and Institutions, includ-ing those to which grant is paid by the Council, to which cases were referred from the Maternity and Child Welfare Clinics during 1933:— | |
| St. Thomas's Hospital | 13 |
| Victoria Hospital, Chelsea | 420 |
| St. James's Hospital | 6 |
| Bolingbroke Hospital | 5 |
| Battersea General Hospital | 1 |
| Borough Tuberculosis Dispensary | 2 |
| South London Hospital for Women | 12 |
| St. Thomas's Babies' Hostel | 3921 |
| St. George's Hospital | 1 |
| Vincent Square Children's Hospital | 3 |
| 855 | |
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 contributed to the cost of Battersea
unmarried mothers who are sent into other approved homes by the
Association.
These arrangements were reviewed by the Council in July,
when, after correspondence with the Association, the Council agreed
to make an annual grant of £150 (in lieu of the payments previously
made) in respect of all Battersea cases placed by the Association
in any Home. The new arrangement came into force as from 1st
April.
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 1933
no application for the services of a home help was received.
* Includes cases referred more than once. Vide p. 29.