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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 confinement 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.
(3) Hostel for Women at 10, Crescent Road, is for
women and girls, which was opened in September, 1933,
by the Bromley National Council of Women. The Hostel
has no subsidy from public funds. This Hostel was
previously maintained at an address in College Road.
Ambulance Facilities.
(1) For Infectious Disease Cases: The West Kent
Joint Hospital Board has motor ambulances at the
Hospital, 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 sick cases of noninfectious
nature, the fee being remitted in necessitous
cases.
Laboratory Facilities.
The West Kent Isolation Hospital undertakes the
testing of throat swabs, and the arrangements continue to
work satisfactorily. The facilities used for the examination
or analysis of clinical material (sputum, etc.), water,
milk and foodstuffs are those provided by the Kent County
Council,