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Convalescent Home Treatment.— During the year grants
in aid of Convalescent Home Treatment amounting to £12 1s. 0d.
were made by the Council in respect of 5 children sent to approved
homes through the Invalid Children's Aid Association.
A grant of £2 10s. 0d. was made in respect of the convalescent
home treatment of one mother.
Provision of Maternity Beds in Hospitals.—The Council
adopted the following scheme by which maternity patients may be
admitted to the Mothers' Hospital, Clapton.
That the Council pay the sum of one guinea in respect of each
necessitous case admitted from the borough.
A necessitous case is defined as one who, by reason of poverty
or other causes, is unable to pay for the treatment received, an
amount equal to one-half the average cost per patient of the maintenance
and administration charges. Last year the cost per inpatient
was £9 12s. 6¾d.
During the year the Council paid the sum of £9 9s. 0d.
respecting 9 cases admitted to the Hospital under the above
arrangement.
Sterile Maternity Outfits.—A supply of these outfits which
contain sterile dressings, etc., is kept at the Welfare Centres for
sale at cost price (5s. 10d. or free issue to necessitous cases).
Compensation Fee to Midwife.—During the year the
Maternity and Child Welfare Committee authorised the payment
of a fee of 30s. to a local midwife in compensation for the loss of a
midwifery case who was referred to a hospital for special treatment
and supervision by the Council's Ante-Natal Officer.
Home Helps.—A Home Help is a person competent to do
domestic work who goes into a home to do house work and cooking
and to take care of the children, when the mother is laid aside by a
confinement.