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(1) The Maternity Department of St. Thomas's
pital (Westminster Bridge).
(2) The General Lying-in Hospital out-patients clinic
(York Road).
(3) The Clapham Maternity Hospital out-patients clinic
(Jeffreys Road).*
N.B.—In connection with (1) and (2), Infants' Consultations
Centres have been established at the Hospitals
concerned for their own particular mothers and their
babies, which have been born in, or in connection
with, such Hospitals. These Infants' Consultations
Centres rank as Welfare Centres for grants directly
under the Scheme, both from the Ministry of Health
and from the Borough Council, none from the latter,
however, being given to the Maternity Hospitals in
connection with actual maternity work (lying-in
wards).
Last, but not least, is the Council's Municipal Milk Depot and
Infants' Consultations Centre (66, York Road, Westminster Bridge
Road), which, naturally, also, forms an important part of the Scheme,
and ranks for Government grants under such Scheme under certain
conditions.
At the Council's Maternity Home, during 1926 (calendar year),
324 mothers were confined at the Home (15 by doctors and 309 by
midwives), whilst, in addition, 33 mothers were confined within the
district by midwives connected with the Home. No case of puerperal
fever and no cases of ophthalmia neonatorum were officially notified, but
medical assistance was sought by the midwives concerned in 36 cases
(at the Home 34, on the District 2).
Financial Grants in Connection with the
Maternity and Child Welfare Scheme.
The principle of making financial grants to the various voluntary
Welfare Centres, out of the Borough rates, which was adopted by the
Council in 1917, is still being carried out, and grants have been made,
as approved, during the year 1926—the Borough Council grants
* Has not yet been given grants by the Borough Council (no application having
been received).
† Outdoor district confinements were discor. tinned in connection with the
Maternity Home on 29th September, 1926.