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Health Visiting.—In 1920 the Council employed 9 Health
Visitors for maternity and child welfare work and these Officers
paid during that year a total of 13,593 visits and made 802 half-day
attendances at Clinics. In the year under review 18 Health Visitors
and the Child Protection Visitor paid 44,797 visits and made 3,015
half-day attendances at Clinics. Details of the work of the Health
Visitors and Child Protection Visitor are given in the Table which
appears on pages 21 and 22.
Maternity Hospital Accommodation.—The Council pays the
sum of one guinea in respect of each necessitous person admitted
from the borough for treatment at either of the under-mentioned
hospitals. Expectant mothers are deemed to be eligible for assistance
under this scheme if by reason of poverty or other cause they
are unable to pay an amount equal to half the average cost per
patient of the maintenance and administration charges of the
hospital concerned for the preceding year.
with the cost to the Council during the year is shown below:—
The number of patients assisted under this scheme, together
Cost.
Cases. £ s. d.
Salvation Army Mothers' Hospital
City of London Maternity Hospital 114 119 14 0
In January, 1943, the Ministry of Health drew attention to the
lack of institutional maternity bed accommodation in London and
a scheme was formulated which secured the provision of additional
maternity beds in voluntary hospitals for cases to be booked through
the borough councils' maternity services. Payment for the beds
is made by the London County Council, patients" contributions
being collected by the hospitals.