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Kilbum Clinic.
Held at 73, Dynham Road on Mondays, at 2 p.m., and on
Thursdays, at 10 a.m.
Mondays.
Number of occasions on which Clinic was open 47
Number of new cases seen 118
Total number of attendances during the year 498
Thursdays.
Number of occasions on which Clinic was open 51
Number of new cases seen 86
Total number of attendances during the year 401
Midwifery Service.
The Borough Council gives financial aid to the two Nursing
Associations for their provision of maternity nurses and midwives.
During the year the Nursing Associations' Maternity Nurses and
their Midwives have attended the following cases: —
Cases attended by:-
Maternity Nurses 75
Midwives 120
Methods of dealing with Unmarried Mothers and Illegitimate
Children, and with Children permanently or temporarily
deprived of a home with their own parents.
The Borough Council has made no direct arrangements for dealing
with these matters. They make a grant to the Foster Home, 99,
Haverstock Hill. The Cross Roads Club, at 88, Alexandra Road,
receives expectant mothers prior to their admission to maternity beds,
and gives them a helping hand afterwards.
The Hampstead and Hendon Rescue Association Home is at 43,
Rosslyn Hill.
No grant is made by the Council to either of these.
Further details with regard to these Homes are given earlier in this
Section.
Arrangements for the supply of Food and Milk.
Food is supplied to expectant and nursing mothers during the
last three months of pregnancy, and milk is supplied to them, and to
children up to three years of age, in accordance with the terms of Circular
No. 185, dated 31st March, 1921, of the Ministry of Health, and
of Circular No. 4, dated 9th August, 1918, of the Local Government
Board.