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The patient contributes 7s. 6d. if a midwife attends, 12s. 6d. if
a doctor attends; for this the patient has attendance for 10 days,
half a sack of coals, and the loan of linen, which is kept by the
storekeeper of the Charity and is overlooked after each loan and
where necessary re-washed; in doubtful cases it is sent away for
disinfection. At times worn articles are given to persons in very
poor circumstances.
The work of the Infants' Health Association has already been
mentioned.
Co-ordination of Maternity and Child Welfare Work with the
School' Medical Service.
The Maternity and Child Welfare Committee is fully co-ordinated
with the work of the School Medical Service; each Health
Visitor gives half her time to School Medical work. The Medical
Officer for the Maternity and Child Welfare Committee is also the
School Medical Officer. The clerical work in the Health Office
has been so arranged that the clerk who does the school medical
work also does the Maternity and Child Welfare work.
Women confined away from their own homes are accepted at
the Richmond Poor Law Infirmary, Queen Charlotte's Hospital,
and the Clapham Maternity Home. The Maternity and Child
Welfare Committee have not hitherto made official arrangements
with any Institution. During the past year the Committee have
considered the possibility of establishing two or three beds for
maternity cases at the Richmond Royal Hospital or in a private nursing
home or some other institution. A letter was sent by the Committee
to the authorities at the Richmond Royal Hospital asking if
arrangements could be made to provide two or three maternity beds
at the hospital; the matter was very thoroughly gone into by the
Hospital authorities, but it was decided that the accommodation
existing at the hospital does not allow of their entering into the
desired arrangements with the Corporation.
The Committee have always been prepared to send away suitable
children to Convales???ent and other Institutions; this work has