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Dental Clinic. A dental clinic for nursing and expectant
mothers is held weekly at the School Treatment
Centre by Mr. T. Vernon, L.D.S., the School Dentist.
A nominal fee ranging from 2d. to 9d. is paid for extractions,
fillings, etc., and dentures are paid for by small
instalments extending over from 9 to 18 months.
Classes are held for Cookery, Dressmaking, Infant
Care, Home Nursing, and Bootmending. 'The attendances
at the Classes in 191 7 amounted to 1,924.
The net cost of the Welfare Centre is now about
£1,100 a year. The Board of Education give a grant
of 50 per cent, of the approved expenditure and for the
balance the Committee are dependent upon voluntary
subscriptions and donations.
(ii) Fulham Babies Hospital, 706, Fulham Road.
(iii) Fulham Nursery, Eridge House.
The work of these two Institutions is dealt with below.
(iv) Harwood Road Home.— A home for illegitimate
children and their mothers has recently been opened at
56, Harwood Road, and is supported by voluntary subscriptions,
There is accommodation for eight mothers
and their babies. The object is not to separate the
mother from the child. While in the home the mother is
able to go out to work and so contribute to the support
of herself and child.
(v) Fulham Invalid Childrens Aid Society.—This
Society sends ailing and convalescent children to convalescent
homes, supplies surgical instruments, and
generally supervises chronic cases referred to it by
hospitals and doctors.
It is essential that in any scheme adopted, full use
should be made of all voluntary agencies, which have
done, and are still doing valuable work, but as the
Council are responsible for the efficient discharge of the
important duties imposed upon them they should be in the