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Institutional.
(1) The Rochester Diocesan Society for Befriending
Women and Girls has a Home at 29, Ravensbourne
Road, which was opened in October, 1912. Here
unmarried expectant mothers are received and arrangements
made for their confinements in maternity homes,
or in the Farnborough Hospital (Public Assistance Institution).
Subsequent to confinement the mothers and
babies are received into the Home and kept there until
employment is found for the mother. If the employment
is not of such a nature as to allow the mother to care
for her child, foster-mothers are found by the Society.
The Home has no subsidy from public funds.
(2) The Blind Hostel, Southlands Road, is a Hostel
maintained by the London Association for the Blind,
and receives no subsidy out of the rates.
Ambulance Facilities.
(1) For Infectious Disease Cases: The "West Kent
Joint Hospital Board has motor ambulances at the Hospital,
Skym Corner, Bromley Common, for the removal
of infectious disease cases.
(2) For Non-Infectious and Accident Cases: A
motor ambulance, the property of the Corporation, is
available at any hour for the removal of accident cases
to hospitals ,and it may be requisitioned for the removal
of sick cases of a non-infectious nature, the fee being
remitted in necessitous cases.
Laboratory Facilities.
The arrangements for testing throat swabs at the
West Kent Infectious Disease Hospital continues to work
efficiently and with despatch. The facilities at Maidstone
provided by the Kent County Council are used for
the testing of all other material other than urgent
diphtheria swabs.
Clinics and Centres.
The School Clinic, Station Road, was opened in
1928, and makes provision for the following treatments
and services, details of which have been dealt with in