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Infant clinics in connection with the maternity departments of
Westminster, St. George's, Middlesex, and the General Lying-in Hospitals
are held weekly in those institutions, but they do not come within the
maternity and child welfare scheme of the Council. Since the Discontinued
Grants (Apportionment) (London) Order, 1930, made by the
Minister of Health, the infant welfare clinics at Charing Cross and the
Infants' Hospital, Vincent Square, receive annual grants from the City
Council, and are accordingly included in the maternity and child welfare
services of the Council.
Nursing.—Under the maternity and child welfare scheme of the
Council arrangements are in force with the three district nursing associations,
the Pimlico, Belgravia and Chelsea; the Westminster; and the
Metropolitan Associations, for the nursing of children under five years of
age suffering from various ailments, and for certain conditions in adults.
Towards the end of the year the three nursing associations requested
the Council to review the rate of payment for their services on the grounds
that maintenance of nursing services, owing to increases in nurses' salaries,
pensions, and, in one instance, acquiring additional premises, had greatly
increased expenditure. As a result of mutual discussion it was decided
that the most practical and immediate way of meeting the increased
expenditure was for the Council to undertake payment for cases on a
somewhat wider basis. Accordingly, adult cases of tuberculosis and all
cases of illness in children under 5 years of age, including the nursing of
operative cases, were added to the list of approved cases.

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