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and children at a cost of £4 5s. 0d., by arrangement with the
Women's League of Service.
Necessitous mothers were also referred from the Welfare
Centres to the kitchen of the Invalid Kitchcns' Association in
Henley Street, where they were supplied with 216 dinners during
1933 at a cost of £6 6s. 0d.
Convalescent Homes.
During 1933, accommodation was provided for 11 mothers
and 9 children attending the various Maternity and Child Welfare
Clinics. Of these, 4 mothers and 3 children were sent to Littlestone-on
-Sea Convalescent Home, 6 mothers and 5 babies to the
Evelyn Convalescent Home, Upper Wargrave, and 1 mother with
her child to the Salvation Army Home, Tankerton. The cost
incurred by the Council amounted to £19 2s. 6d., the families
concerned contributing the balance of £4 9s. Od.
Thirteen other children attending the Council's Welfare Centres
were sent away for a period of convalescence through the agency of
the Invalid Children's Aid Association.
In addition to the above, 15 mothers and 8 children attending
the voluntary centres linked up with the Council's scheme were
sent away for the period of convalescence, the cost of which was
not borne by the Council (vide pp. 33).
Midwives.
So far as can be ascertained there are 15 registered private
midwives who reside in Battersea or adjoining districts and practise
in the Borough, apart from those employed in the Council's
maternity services.
In addition to these private midwives and the District service
provided by the Borough Council (vide page 41) the eastern portion
of the Borough is served by the district midwifery services of the
St. Thomas's Hospital, Clapham Maternity Hospital and the General
Lying-in Hospital, York Road.
Nursing Facilities.
The Council have made arrangements with the South London
District Nursing Association of 109 Clapham Common North Side,
for the nursing of mothers and children under the powers contained
in the Maternity and Child Welfare Act of 1918, and also of patients
suffering from certain infectious illnesses. A payment of 8d. per
visit is made in respect of attendances on cases of infectious disease
as set out in the table which follows. No charge is made by the
Association for the attendance of their nurses upon mothers and
children referred to them under the Council's Maternity and Child
Welfare Scheme.
During 1933 the total number of attendances made by the
nurses of the District Nursing Association in connection with cases
of infectious disease was:—