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(h) FAMILY WELFARE ASSOCIATION. Area 4 of this Association covers the
City of London and eight London boroughs. The Combined Casework Unit
(Family Centre of Hackney and Stoke Newington, 41, Boleyn Road, N.16) is an
experimental family casework agency set up during the year by Family Service
Units, Family Welfare Association and Invalid Children's Aid Association to
provide within one administrative unit the casework services at present
provided by the three organisations separately. The Unit will operate for a
period of five years, ending in 1967, under a Committee of Management composed
of representatives of the three parent bodies and of independent members.
(i) ST. MARY'S, STAMFORD HILL. This Home, run by a community of Anglican
nuns, provides accommodation for 22 unmarried mothers and their babies.
'During the year 83 girls have been discharged; 37 girls took their babies
home; 2 babies went to Residential Nurseries, 3 to foster mothers and 34 were
adopted. Four babies went into the care of the local authority, two babies
died and there was one still birth.'
(j) JOEL EMANUEL ALMSHOUSES, Egerton Road, N.16. These Almshouses are
acininistered by the Board of Guardians and Trustees for the relief of Jewish
Poor. They provide accommodation for 44 persons, including married couples
and.single women and widows. There is a resident caretaker.
(k) SALVATION ARMY. The following two establishments in the Borough are
provided by the Salvation Army:-
'Crossways', 9, Amhurst Park, Stamford Hill, N.16, which provides accommodation
for 23 unmarried mothers and for 19 babies. Some cases were discharged.
'Lanark House' , 13, Laura Place, Clapton, E. 5. This hostel makes provision
for 20 girls, aged 15 to 18 years, and some 35 were accommodated.