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there into the dressing compartments of the ante natal clinic. Other
accommodation on the south side consists of a doctors' room and a
demonstration and weighing room where health lectures, etc., will be
given. The accommodation on the north side consists of offices,
committee, waiting, and health visitors' rooms.
First Floor.—Separate entrances are provided on both the east and
west ends to the Day Nursery, situated on the first floor. The
principal rooms facing south have been allocated to three age groups of
children—cot babies, older babies, and toddlers, with a spacious sun
balcony outside. On the north side will be a large bathroom, with
children's pedestal cots, kitchen, nurses' and children's dining rooms
and a receiving and committee room.
Second Floor.—On this floor are wards for resident children and
staff quarters. The wards will be utilised for the temporary accommodation
of children whose mothers have to attend hospital for inpatient
treatment, or where the mother is compelled temporarily to
leave the home for other urgent reasons.
Top Floor.—On this floor will be the caretaker's flat, a flat for the
superintendent health visitor of the Maternity and Child Welfare Centre
and further day nursery staff quarters with balcony space on the south
side.
Hospitals.
Municipal.—Particulars of the various hospitals in the City have been
fully outlined in previous reports. One municipal hospital is situated in
the City, viz. :—that in Sheffield Street controlled by the London County
Council which has 82 beds, 30 for parturient venereal cases and 52
for ordinary cases suffering from venereal disease.
Voluntary.—There are 14 voluntary hospitals in the City.
The City Council has by agreement entered into an arrangement with
two hospitals for the admission of certain patients, viz.:—
(а) With St. George's Hospital for the admission and treatment of
maternity patients.
(б) With Westminster Hospital for—
(i) The provision of maternity beds for patients sent through
the Council's maternity and child welfare centres.
(ii) The services of midwives to attend necessitous women in their
own homes.