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Maternity.
The Council's Maternity Home is situated at 52 Wickham Road,
and has accommodation for 12 cases. (See Report "Maternity and
Child Welfare.")
In addition, the following nursing homes, situated within the borough,
and registered by the London County Council under the Nursing Homes
Registration Act, have been approved for the reception of maternity
patients:—
17 Breakspears Road. 23 Hilly Fields Crescent (Park Lodge).
74 St. John's Road.
Amongst Hospitals, not within the Borough, to which Deptford
women are admitted for confinement are, St. Alfege Hospital,
St. Thomas' Hospital, the General Lying-in Hospital, York Road,
Lambeth, Queen Charlotte's Lying-in Hospital, and King's College
Hospital.
Children.
Since the opening of the Albany Deptford Babies' Hospital, on the
11th July, 1933, the Borough Council, by arrangement, has sent
debilitated infants requiring dietetic treatment for in-patient treatment.
In addition, mothers and infants requiring supervision in connection
with breast-feeding are either admitted or treated as out-patients.
These arrangements are in substitution for the previous procedure
which provided for the sending of all such cases to St. Thomas'
Hostel, Kennington.
General in-patient and out-patient treatment is provided at such
London hospitals as Vincent Square, Evelina and Great Ormond
Street, and locally, at St. Alfege, the Miller and St. John's Hospitals.
Maternal Mortality.
See "Maternity and Child Welfare."
Institutional provision for Unmarried Mothers, Illegitimate
Infants, etc.
No provision.
Ambulance Facilities.
These were fully set out in my report for 1930, and no material
change in the arrangements has taken place.