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Infant Welfare Centres.—The Infant Welfare Centres
have been carried on throughout the year by the
Voluntary Infant Welfare Committee, the staff consisting
partly of municipal officers and partly of officers
paid by the Voluntary Committee. The Medical
Officers concerned in this work (Dr. Ruby Thomson,
Dr. G. F. Hardy and Dr. Florence Wilson) are all
provided by the Borough Council as also are the Health
Visitors. The Voluntary Committee provide a
Superintendent for the Centres and an Assistant
Superintendent. Three Centres are in operation, viz. :
at 92, Greyhound Road, at 170, Wandsworth Bridge
Road and at Melmoth Hall, Eustace Road, thus
dividing the Borough into three districts with a Centre
within reasonable reach of the mothers residing in each
district.
The Consultations held at these Centres are divided
into two classes; (1) Ante-natal and (2) Post-natal.
The Ante-natal Consultations are held by Dr. Ruby
Thomson, the Assistant Medical Officer of Health, on
one morning and one afternoon each week. The Postnatal
Consultations, or, as they are generally known,
the Infant Welfare Clinics are held on three afternoons
each week at Greyhound Road, two afternoons each
week at Wandsworth Bridge Road and two afternoons
each week at Melmoth Hall, thus making a total of
seven such clinics per week. These Clinics are conducted
by Dr. Thomson on three occasions, Dr. Hardy
on two occasions and Dr. Wilson on two occasions.