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1935] 22
MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE.
Contributions by the Borough Council.
Year ending 31 st March, 1936.
Voluntary Welfare Centres. Day Nurseries.
£. £.
North Centre 5,461 Lower Holloway 244
South Centre 2,500 St. Luke's 229
East Centre 1,901 South Islington 600
West Centre 1,926
Total £1,073
Total £11,788
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, 45 Islington children under five years were given
periods of convalescence either in the country or by the sea, and 26 crippled
children of like ages, 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 £12 1 0
Under Public Health £20 11 Of
Total £32 18 0
f Includes also nursing of pneumonia (adult).
Contributions under arrangements for maternity cases admitted to beds at
Maternity Hospitals, the contributions being a grant of 10s. per case, were : City
of London Maternity Hospital, £60 10s. Od. ; Royal Free Hospital, £6 10s. 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.
GRANTS TO MIDWIVES.
(i) " Necessitous cases " confined at home.
(ii) Where Medical Officer of a Centre has intervened in sending the midwife's
patient to hospital.
The Borough Council of Islington during the year, with the approval of the
Ministry of Health, have introduced a scheme, in certain approved cases of bona
fide Islington residents, to provide a small grant to the Midwife where the family
is necessitous and unable to pay the usual moderate charge of the Midwife for the
confinement at the patient's home.
In such cases the Midwife should apply to this Department for the application
form on which to fill in the particulars which are required for the information of
the Borough Council.