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Certain of the children attending the Somerford
Street Day Nursery also attend the Council's Welfare
Centre every week for light treatment and some are
sent away to country homes during the summer.
ORPHANS.
There is a branch of the National Children's Home
and Orphanage situated in Bonner Road.
MATERNITY.
Public.
The Borough Council has a Maternity Clinic,
Cornwall Road, at which a variety of work for maternal
welfare is carried on. The Council also employs a
midwife, who resides in the borough. (For further
particulars see the section of this report dealing with
Maternity and Child Welfare).
London County Council: There are 18 beds in
the Maternity ward in Bethnal Green Hospital. Dr.
R. D. O'Leary informs me that 268 maternity cases
were dealt with in the year, in addition to 11 cases of
stillbirth and 66 cases of abortion. An ante-natal
clinic is held weekly for women intending to enter the
hospital for confinement and 188 women made 482
attendances at the Clinic.
Other.
There are 2 private midwives living and practising
in the borough while about 6 others who reside outside
also frequently practice in the borough.
The maternity services connected with the London
Hospital, City of London Maternity Hospital, Salvation