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VOLUNTARY WORK.
101. Voluntary Centre. The Voluntary Centre at the
Victory Club, Beresford Street, has continued to do good work
during the year. The total number of children attending this
Centre during the year was 129, and the total number of
attendances was 1,136.
102. Day Nursery. The Woolwich Day Nursery was
closed on the 31st March, 1920.
103. Convalescent Home, Brent Road. This Home is
controlled by the National League for Health, Maternity
and Child Welfare, and is a Convalescent Home for Mothers
and Infants. Accommodation is provided for 4 nursing mothers
with their babies and 6 nursery children up to the age of 18
months. Through the courtesy of the Matron, I am able to
report that during the year the number of nursing mothers
in residence was 50 and their length of stay was about a month.
The number of children was 40. The charges are 15/- per week
for a nursing mother and baby, and 15/- per week for nursery
children. The cases are medically examined weekly.
104. British Hospital for Mothers and Babies. This is a
Maternity Hospital and a School for Midwives, providing
accommodation for 14 indoor cases. At the present time a
new building to replace the existing one in Wood Street is
being built in Samuel Street, and it is expected that, in the
Autumn of 1921, additional maternity beds will be available.
I am informed by the Secretary, Miss Alice Gregory, that the
number of cases admitted during the year was 225, the
number of births, 203, the number of outdoor cases, 325.
There is an ante-natal and post-natal clinic at this Institution
at which 947 cases attended during the year.