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GRANTS TO MIDWIVES.
Conditions applicable to these grants were fully set out in the Annual Report
of the year 1935, p. 22, but briefly it may be said that a midwife may be granted a
compensatory sum where she has referred a case to the Medical Officer of an Islington
Welfare Centre and the patient has been sent on by the Medical Officer to hospital
for the confinement to take place there. Compensation may also be paid for
necessitous cases confined at home by the midwife.
Three claims were paid by the Council during the year, all three being on account
of the patient having been referred to a hospital.
HOSPITAL GRANTS.
Contributions made under arrangement for maternity cases admitted to beds
at Maternity Hospitals at the rate of 10s. per case were City of London Maternity
Hospital £29 0s. 0d., Royal Free Hospital £8 10s. 0d., and University College
Hospital £28.
HOME HELPS.
The Council's Home Help Scheme has proved increasingly popular as is shown in
the increase in the number of applications made and cases granted.
During the year 1938 there were 196 Home Help cases, of which 123 were free
of cost to the patients and in the remaining 73 cases the patients contributed to
the extent of £64 5s. 5d.
The cost to the Council in respect of the whole of the cases as enumerated was
£465 5s. 2d.
MIRIAM PRICE COLEMAN DAY NURSERY AND CLINICS CENTRE,
Scholefield Road, N.l9.
Owing to the number of clinics which are held in this building the Council decided
that the above would be the more appropriate name in place of that originally given,
namely, Miriam Price Coleman Day Nursery and Sunlight Clinic.
The Clinics held are Ultra-Violet Light Therapy, Diphtheria Immunisation,
Maternity Consultative, and from 1939, Evening Ante-natal and Post-natal sessions.
DAY NURSERIES.
Municipal Day Nursery :—Miriam Price Coleman Day Nursery.
This Nursery, the first Municipal Nursery in the Borough, was opened towards
the end of 1937, and therefore completed its very successful first year during 1938.
The Nursery buildings were described in the Annual Report for 1937, and it has
been gratifying to notice the interest taken in new Day Nursery buildings judging by
visits paid to the Day Nursery, on request, by interested individual workers, including
Architects, Public Health and Maternity and Child Welfare Committees and representatives
of various local authorities.