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To understand this table it is necessary to remember that Sister Leaton
takes cases in the Borough who apply for her services (Municipal cases)
and also attends the confinements and acts as Maternity Nurse in cases conducted
in Shoreditch by Students from St. Bartholomew's Hospital (St.
Bartholomew's Hospital cases).
The full fee for Municipal cases is 25s. for the first child and 21s. for
other children, and the Council have approved a comprehensive scheme
under which these charges can be remitted in whole or in part to those whose
income falls below a certain scale.
The Council receives 15s. from St. Bartholomew's Hospital for every case
in which Sister Leaton acts as Maternity Nurse in the manner described.
Local Government Act, 1929.
The conditions, subject to which the grant formerly payable by the
Ministry of Health to the Voluntary Institutions reported upon in this subsection,
is now to be paid to the Borough Council out of the Treasury block
grant, are set forth in the Ministry of Health scheme prepared under Section
101 of the Act. These conditions were quoted in full in the last report.
Subject to these conditions the following voluntary organizations receive
the discontinued Ministry grant.
Shoreditch School for Mothers.
Amount payable in respect of discontinued grant, £755 1s. 6d. At the
end of the Financial Year 1931-32, this amount was increased by the Borough
Council. The Committee of the School for Mothers administer the two
following institutions:—
School for Mothers, 28, Herbert Street.
For many years this institution has worked in close co-operation with
the Borough Council.
A district (No. 7) in the Western portion of the Borough in which this
Centre is centrally placed has been allocated to the two Health Visitors
employed.
Notifications of births are sent from the Public Health Offices, and the
Health Visitors are responsible for all visiting within this district. Two
Infant Welfare, one weighing centre without a doctor, one Ante-Natal Consultation,
and a Sewing Class are held weekly. Particulars of the visits
made and attendances at the Centres in the School for Mothers district will
be found in the tables at the end of this section of the report.
As a result of an inspection of the work of this Centre in January, 1931,
it was suggested that it would be more satisfactory if the Health Visitors
were to adopt the same form of record-keeping as that used by the Health
Visitors at the Town Hall. This suggestion was readily adopted and has
worked well.