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(iii) Institutional Treatment, for Mothers and Children.
(a) There is no provision in the Borough for institutional
treatment for mothers and children, provided
by the Corporation. but private arrangements exist for
the reception of expectant unmarried mothers at the
Kingston Deanery Home for Friendless Girls, 18 Richmond
Park Road. The home is administered by a voluntary
body, the Kingston Deanery Moral Welfare Committee, affiliated
to the Southwark Diocesan Association for moral
welfare. There are fourteen beds. Admission is not
confined to Kingston residents, but is extended to girls
residing anywhere in, or occasionally beyond, the Southwark
diecese The expectant mothers enter the home about
two months before confinement, and it is a condition of
their acceptance that they stay for at least two months
after confinement, at the end of which period efforts
arc made to secure them suitable employment. A social
welfare worker keeps in touch with the girls after they
leave the home.. The re is a permanent staff consisting
of a Matron, S.C.M. Nurse, and a Cook-Housekeeper.
The following table shows the numbers of admissions
to the house during the period under review: -
1940 - 81
1941 - 59
1942 - 58
1943 - 59
1944 - 32 ж
ж The homo was closed from mid June, 1944, until 1st
October, 1944, during flying bomb attacks. As many
of the cases as possible were sent home; others were
evacuated under the Government Evacuation Scheme.
This accounts for the low numbers of admissions to the
homo during 1944.
WAR-TIME NURSERIES.
(b) On the 1st January, 1944, there were six wartime
nurseries in the Borough, four of which were administered
by the local authority, with the approval of the
Ministry of Health. The remaining two Nurseries were
operated under private direction, but each received a
grant, from the Ministry of Health, of 1/- per day, per
attendance.
As the result of representations by the Kingston
Day Nursery Voluntary Committee, the nursery at
53/55 Canbury Park Road, was taken over by the Corporation,
with the approval of the Ministry of Healthy as a fully
recognised war-time nursery, on 1st April 1944, leaving
only one nursery at Messrs. Bentalls, Ltd., to be
administered by private direction.