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5. Provision of Maternity Outfits.
The Borough Council now provides sterile maternity outfits for any
women confined at home, the issue being free or at half cost price in
necessitous cases. During the year under report the following issues
were made :—
Free 100
Sold at half price 8
Sold at full price 18
6. Provision of Home Nursing.
Arrangements have been made for the provision of a District Nurse
in certain types of illness. Full details of these appear under
"Nursing in the Home."
7. Provision of Home Helps.
The scheme for this form of domestic assistance makes provision for
the service of a Home Help during labour and the first three months
from the date of confinement and, in exceptional cases during pregnancy.
In 17 instances, Home Helps were provided during the year under
report.
8. Convalescent Treatment.
Provision is made for the accommodation of mothers and children,
selected upon medical grounds, in certain recognised convalescent
homes, admission being made either direct or, in the case of children,
through the Invalid Children's Aid Association. During 1933, 13 cases
were sent away.
9. Hospital Provision for Infants.
(a) Deptford Babies' Hospital, Albury Street.
Following upon the voluntary closure of their hospital in Albury
Street, the Hospital Board purchased a large house with spacious
grounds in Brealout, and eventually, upon the 11th July, 1933, the building was
formally opened. The accommodation for in-patients consists of
sixteen cots, together with two beds for mothers and infants, and two
cots for isolation purposes. In the grounds a large single-storey
building has been erected in which a breast-feeding clinic is conducted