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31 [1933
MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE.

* This Nursery is a municipally
owned building-. (No rent
charged for its use).
INVALID CHILDREN'S AID ASSOCIATION.
The Borough Council contributes £25 per annum to the Local Branch of this
Association. During- the year, 58 Islington children under five years were given
periods of convalescence either in the country or by the sea, and 34 children of
like ag-es, crippled, were provided with surgical appliances, splints, special boots,
etc.
Contributions for Maternity and Child Welfare Work per Case in Respect
of Work Done.
The Islington Borough Council has an arrangement with the North London
Nursing Association for the attendance, by visitation, in cases of Ophthalmia
Neonatorum, Acute Primary Pneumonia, Acute Influenzal Pneumonia, Measles,
Whooping Cough and Epidemic Diarrhoea. The payments made to this Association,
at the rate of one shilling per visit, were :—
Under Maternity and Child Welfare £33 2 0
Under Public Health £20 19 Of
Total £54 1 0
Contributions under arrangements for maternity cases admitted to beds at
Maternity Hospitals, the contributions being a grant of 10s. per case, were: Cit)
of London Maternity Hospital, £58 0s. Od.; Royal Free Hospital, £9 0s. Od.
In addition to these cases of Ophthalmia Neonatorum and Marasmus are admitted
to the London County Council's Hospital (St. Margaret's), Camden Town, N.W.
and Queen Mary's Hospital, Carshalton.
† Includes also nursing of pneumonia (adult).
NATIONAL SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO
CHILDREN.
While in the majority of cases, visited either by the official Health Visitors of
the Town Hall or through the Welfare Centres, advice given is accepted and is
appreciated, even in the enlightenment of the present age there are cases, few in
number, it is true, in which the child is not well looked after at home and advice
and warning may be unheeded. In connection with these cases, we are indebted
in Islington to active help from the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Children. 20 cases were referred to the Society from the Public Health Department
(three of these were Infant Life Protection cases under the duties recently
transferred from the London County Council).