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6. Provision of Home Nursing.
Arrangements have been made for the provision of a District Nurse
in certain types of illness. Full details of these appear under
"Nursing in the Home."
7. Provision of Home Helps.
The scheme for this form of domestic assistance makes provision for
the service of a Home Help during labour and the first three months
from the date of confinement and, in exceptional cases during pregnancy.
In 25 instances, Home Helps were provided during the year under
report.
8. Convalescent Treatment.
Provision is made for the accommodation of mothers and children,
selected upon medical grounds, in certain recognised convalescent
homes, admission being made either direct or, in the case of children,
through the Invalid Children's Aid Association. During 1938, 10 cases
were sent away.
9. Hospital Provision for Infants.
(a) Deptford Babies' Hospital, Breakspears Road.
During the year under review, continued use was made of the
facilities afforded at this hospital, established for the dietetic treatment
of ailing infants and for difficulties associated with breast-feeding. The
accommodation consists of 16 cots, together with two beds for mothers
and infants and two cots for isolation purposes, while the breast-feeding
clinic is housed in a detached building.
The following cases received treatment:—
108 children admitted, of which 39 were sent by the Borough
Council.
624 test feeds were conducted at the Breast-feeding Clinic, all
of which were sent by the Borough Council.
33 mothers with infants were admitted as in-patients for restoration
of breast-feeding.