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In September the Council also agreed to a further proposal
made by the London County Council under which the Council
undertook to supply milk to those expectant mothers(not in receipt
of Public Assistance grants) who attend the ante-natal clinics
attached to the County Council's general hospitals and who are
certified by the medical officers of the County Council to be in need
of additional nourishment. The grant of milk in these cases
however is limited to those mothers whose income comes within
the Council's scale.
This extension of the Council's scheme was not used in the
year under report.
In addition to the provision of milk, dinners to the number of
38 were supplied during 1934 to necessitous expectant and nursing
mothers and children at a cost of £1 2s. 2d., by arrangement with
the Women's League of Service.
Necessitous mothers were also referred from the Welfare
Centres to the kitchen of the Invalid Kitchens' Association in
Henley Street, where they were supplied with 246 dinners during
1934 at a cost of £6 5s. 6d.
Convalescent Homes.
During 1934, accommodation was provided for 9 mothers
and 8 children attending the various Maternity and Child Welfare
clinics. Of these 2 mothers and 2 children were sent to Littlestoneon-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 £14 19s. 0d., the families concerned
contributing the balance of £2 15s. 0d.
Eleven 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, 14 mothers and 7 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 p. 43).
Midwives.
So far as can be ascertained there are 14 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 38) the eastern portion
of the Borough is served by the district midwifery services of
St. Thomas's Hospital, Clapham Maternity Hospital and the General
Lying-in Hospital, York Road. The question of securing a greater
degree of co-operation between the private midwives practising
in the Borough and the ante-natal services organised by the Council
has been before the Health Committee on various occasions, and in
December the Committee decided to recommend the Council—