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Main Memorial Home, 141, West End Lane.
This Home receives unmarried expectant mothers and mothers
with young babies after discharge from hospital. It has accommodation
for 7 expectant mothers and 7 mothers and babies. During
the year 42 expectant mothers were admitted. The total number of
beds available at the Home consists of 14 beds and 8 cots.
St. Agatha's House, 39, Lancaster Road.
This Home receives unmarried expectant mothers for 3 months
prior to their confinements, who return, with their infants, for 3 months.
It has accommodation for 10 mothers and 5 babies. During the year
20 expectant mothers were admitted.
Hampstead and North St. Pancras Day Nursery.
This Day Nursery occupies commodious premises at 27 & 29,
Pond Street. There are 50 places in the Nursery for children under
5 years of age. The total number of attendances made during 1936
was 8,570. The Nursery is controlled by a Voluntary Committee
and the Borough Council contributed £543 during 1936. By an
arrangement with this Voluntary Committee the Borough Council
rents a portion of the premises for the purpose of an Ante-natal
Clinic.
Provision of Midwives.
The Borough Council has a scheme whereby the local district
Nursing Associations provide for their nurses to attend confinements.
Patients are charged by the Associations according to their means; in
very poor cases no charge is made.
During 1936, the midwives of the Kilburn and West Hampstead
District Nursing Association attended 99 cases, whilst those of the
Hampstead District Nursing Association attended 16 cases. Of the
115 cases, 54 were attended in the company of a medical practitioner.
Compensation to Midwives.
The Council compensates private midwives, other than those
attached to the District Nursing Associations, Maternity Homes or
Hospitals, for loss of cases referred by the Ante-natal Clinics to
hospital for confinement, at the rate of 10s. 6d. per case, subject to
the following conditions :—(a) the patient is required to confirm the