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Arrangements have been made for the submission of a report
by the hospital on each case on its discharge for home on a special
form, for the guidance of the Medical Officer of the Clinic
and the Health Visitors. Any recommendations for future treatment
are duly noted and the parents are assisted in every way
possible to carry out the treatment or methods of feeding advised.
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital, Euston Road.
A cot has been retained at this Hospital for babies or children
under five years of age at a retaining fee of £25 per annum plus
a weekly charge of 30s. per week in respect of each case actually
admitted.
Last year five cases were admitted to the Hospital under the
Scheme:- Bronchitis 4, Tonsilitis and bronchitis 1.
Other Hospitals.
The Council also have arrangements with the Queen's Hospital
for Children, Hackney Road, the Royal Free Hospital, the Middlesex
Hospital and the University College Hospital for the admission of
babies and young children. Thirty to forty shillings per week is
paid for these services. Last year 17 babies and children were
admitted for treatment and nursing:—Bronchitis 6, Pneumonia 2,
Diarrhoea and vomiting 3, Otitis media 1, Fractured skull 1, Acute
mastoid 1, Post-measles 1, Convulsions 1, Observation 1.
Arrangements were made last year for the admission of ailing,
premature and marasmic babies, and mothers and babies for the
re-establishment and regulation of breast feeding, to the following
Homes:—
(i) Cromwell House, Highgate Hill.
(ii) The Mothercraft Training Home, Chelsea.