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£80 for salaries and making no allowance for the hire of roomsand
cleansing, lighting, etc., which are allowed free.
No grants have been made by the Borough Council.
Applications have also been made to the Local Government Board for
grants by the following institutions —
The Paismore Edwards' Settlement School for Mothers.
The expenditure of this institution for the year ended 30th
September, 1914, was £63, including £48 for salaries and
making no allowance for the hire of rooms and cleansing,,
lighting, etc., which are allowed by the Settlement free.
University College Hospital (for their large maternity practice as well as
for their maternity and infant welfare consultations, etc.)
The Royal Free Hospital (for their scheme as above described).
The St Pancras Dispensary, 39, Oakley Square (for their infant clinic).
The Maternity Nursing Association, 73, Oakley Square (for their maternity
practice as well as for the maternity and infant welfare centre which
they have established).
All these applications are under discussion and appear to have
been favourably received.
Kentish Town Dining Room for Mothers, Lyndhurst Hall, Warden Read,
N.W. (in respect of the provision of cheap dinners for needy
expectant and nursing mothers). The Board have replied that
grants are not available for the provision of food.
Applications have been made to the Borough Council for assistance by the
following institutions: —
The St. Pancras School for Mothers, 1, Ampthill Square, N.W.
The North St Pancras School for Mothers, 4, Rhyl Street, N.W., and
Winscombe Street, N.W.
These two bodies wrote to the Town Clerk on 5th September,
1914, and 18th September, 1914, respectively, asking for help either
in the form of a money grant, or by means of the assistance of
Borough health visitors.
The Highgate Road Maternity Centre, 5, Grove Terrace, Highgate Road,
N.W. The Women's Co-operative Guild wrote to the Town Clerk
on 10th November, 1914, asking that the Council should take over
this maternity centre. They estimated the yearly expense at £166,
of which the Local Government Board would presumably pay half.
A deputation of members of the Guild and others was received on
2nd December, 1914, by a Sub-Committee of the Health Committee,
when they urged the same view.