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(d) Maternity.
Provision during 1926 has continued to be made under the
Surrey County Council Maternity and Child Welfare Scheme for
the admission of women needing special treatment during confinement
to certain Maternity Homes in Surrey. Patients from this
District so provided for are usually sent to a Maternity Home at
Redhill or Kingston.
There is no Maternity Home situated in the District which
is provided or subsidised by the District Council or by the County
Council.
On 1st January, 1927, the Barnes Urban District Council
became the Local Authority for the purposes of the Maternity
and Child Welfare Act, 1918.
(e) Children's Hospitals.
There being no hospital in the area for the treatment of
children, the District Council make a donation annually to the
Royal Hospital, Richmond, the Putney Hospital, and the West
London Hospital, Hammersmith, these three Hospitals being those
mainly used by the inhabitants of this area. In addition, the
Surrey County Council, as the local education authority, have
made provision for operative treatment of enlarged tonsils and
adeuoids to be undertaken at the Royal Hospital, Richmond, in
the case of children attending the public elementary schools.
(2) Institutional Provision for Unmarried Mothers,
Illegitimate Infants and Homeless Children.
Provision for cases of the above description belonging to this
District is made by the Surrey County Council, under the County
Maternity and Child Welfare Scheme, in institutions outside this
District in the case of persons not already provided for by the
Poor-law Authority.
(3) Ambulance Facilities.
(a) For Infectious Cases.
A motor ambulance is provided by the Council for removal
of patients suffering from infectious disease to the Isolation
Hospital. This ambulance is so constructed as to enable the
infected bedding and clothing to be removed at the same time
as the patient.