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(ii) Sterile Maternity Outfits. These outfits contain sterilised
dressings, etc., and are sold at cost price at every Welfare Centre.
In the course of the year 421 of these outfits were sold. The
Council has sanctioned the issue of these outfits free or at reduced
cost in cases of poverty.
34 applications (2 since cancelled) for assistance towards the
purchase of these outfits from necessitous cases were received in the
course of the year at a cost to the Council of £3 16s. 0d.
(iii) Sterilization of Bed Linen, etc. During the year 22
applications only were received from the whole area in connection
with the service which is entirely free.
(iv) Co-operation with Voluntary Hospitals. There is
now an active liaison between the almoners of the various hospitals
in the Metropolis and the Public Health Department in respect
of the Lambeth Mothers who apply for both in- and out-patient
treatment for their confinements. Such cases are visited by the
Council's Health Visitors, who refer mothers to their local Welfare
Centre for advice for themselves, and for patterns of baby clothing,
etc., and full reports are forwarded to the almoner of the hospital
concerned. The total number of these cases (both ante-natal and
post-natal) visited and reported upon during 1934 was 1,991,
distributed as follows :—
St. Thomas's Hospital 850
King's College Hospital 198
General Lying-in Hospital 384 1,747
Lambeth Hospital 314
Royal Waterloo Hospital 1
'Westminster Hospital 62
Charing Cross Hospital 35
St. George's Hospital 12
Dulwich Hospital 57
Institutions Middlesex Hospital 5
outside the Elizabeth Garratt Anderson Hospital 2 244
Borough of Royal Free Hospital 2
Lambeth Guy's Hospital 1
University College Hospital 1
St. Giles' Hospital 61
South London Hospital 5
St. Mary's Hospital 1