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Institutional Provision for Unmarried Mothers.
The Main Memorial Home, 49, Cartwright Gardens, W.C. 1, provides accommodation
for young unmarried women expecting for the first time to become mothers. The Home is
maintained by funds obtained from voluntary sources, but a grant is made bv the Ministry of
Health.
St. Margaret's Home, 13, Burton Street, W.C.1. This Rescue Home, maintained
entirely by funds from voluntary sources, provides accommodation for young women and babies
requiring care and supervision, and endeavours to find suitable situations for those capable
of work.
Ambulance Facilities.
London Ambulance Service. (Headquarters, The County Hall, S.E.I.) Facilities
afforded by the London Ambulance Service (Tel. City 7200), with instructions for obtaining
the help of the service.
I.— Ambulances Supplied Without Payment.
The London County Council provides, within the Administrative County of London,
ambulances, free of cost, for the conveyance to:—
A.—Hospitals or private residences of:—
(i) Persons meeting with accidents or suffering from sudden illnesses in the streets,
public places, places of employment, etc.;
(ii) Persons meeting with accidents in their homes;
(iii) Persons suffering from illnesses in their homes, if a medical practitioner certifies
that the case is one of life or death, and that arrangements have been made for the
reception of the patient in a hospital;
(iv) Parturient women, if the case is one of urgency, whether from the home, place
of business, or elsewhere, on the application of a qualified medical practitioner or certified
midwife, provided that either a doctor or midwife accompanies the case; and
(v) Non-urgent cases of parturition, if the call is made between the hours of 11 p.m.
and 8 am.
In such cases admission to a maternity bed must have previously been arranged and
a card (issued by the County Council to hospitals, maternity homes, etc.) for such
admission obtained. This card must be handed to the ambulance attendant at the time
of removal.
In these cases the husband or a female friend must accompany the patient.
(Note.—The Corporation of the City of London maintains its own ambulance service for
dealing with cases of accident and illness occuring in the streets within the City area.)
B. —The London County Council's hospitals for infectious cases:—
Patients can only be removed if the following conditions have been fulfilled :
A medical certificate must be handed to the ambulance nurse stating definitely the
nature of the disease, and this disease must be one of those admissible to hospital.