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HOME HELPS.
Applications for the provision of Home Helps are considered by
the Milk Rota Committee and, if approved, a payment of 12s. 6d.
per week for two weeks is made. In addition to the 78 Home Helps
approved during 1937 many mothers attending the Clinic made
their own arrangements to obtain the help of suitable women whose
names were supplied by the Health Visitors.
Seven applications were rejected by the Rota Committee.
The demand for Home Help.s has been as follows during
the past seven years: 1931 (3), 1932 (12), 1933 (18), 1934
(21), 1935 (60), 1936 (87), 1937 (78).
STERILISED MATERNITY OUTFITS.
13 outfits were issued below cost price.
INSTITUTIONAL TREATMENT, ETC.
Ten children were sent t.o Institutions under arrangements
approved by your Committee.
Three mothers were sent away for post-natal convalescent home
treatment.
HOSPITAL ACCOMMODATION FOR CONFINEMENTS.
The following numbers of confinements occurred at the Institutions
specified (Walthamstow residents only):—
Thorpe Coombe Maternity Hospital 639
Nursing Homes in Walthamstow 194
Mothers' Hospital, Clapton 69
Forest Gate Hospital 44
Queen Mary's Hospital, Stratford 16
City of London Maternity Hospital 14
976
There are five nursing homes in the Borough with a total maximum
accommodation of 29 beds for maternity crises. In addition,
the Municipal Maternity Hospital has 35 lying-in beds and 4 isolation
beds, making a total for the Borough of 64 lying-in beds and 4
isolation beds.