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Home Help.
The Council's Home Helps attended 16 cases during the year, the same number
as in the year 1934.
All applications for the services of the Home Help are considered by the
Assistance Sub-Committee of the Maternity and Child Welfare Committee.
In three cases of extreme necessity the services of the Home Help were
granted free. In all other cases the applicants were required to contribute towards
the cost, contributions ranging from 2s. 6d. per week up to the full cost. The
services of the Home Help have been much appreciated; and it has been found
that the Council's provision meets a much felt want in the Borough.
Convalescent Homes.
Four mothers and their babies were sent away. In three cases the applicant
was required to contribute towards the cost.
Fifteen applications were granted for convalescent home accommodation for
children under five years of age; in two cases the parents failed to take advantage
of the facilities provided. Thirteen children were sent away, 8 free, the parents
of the other children were required to pay part of the cost. All these children
were admitted to the Hopedene Convalescent Home at Barnet.
It is with very great regret that I have to record the death, during the year,
of Sister Hope, of the West London Mission, Kingsway, who had been in charge
of Hopedene from the start. Many scores of Holborn children came under her
care there; and many hundreds more at the Kingsway Creche, where she worked
for over forty years.
Saffron Hill Maternity and Child Welfare Centre.
Consultations in connection with this Voluntary Centre are held at the St.
Winifred Club, St. Peter's School, Onslow Street, Saffron Hill.
During the year ended 31st December, 1935, 186 children under five attended
the consultations, 40 of the total number coming from the Holborn Borough. The
189 children made 2,540 attendances.
Extra food and nourishment were provided, also convalescent treatment at
country and seaside Homes (44 mothers and 71 children); classes and lectures on
health, care of the home, food, household economy and kindred subjects were held.
The Chairman and Honorary Secretary is Miss Mary Canney, 75, Lamb's Conduit
Street.