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Battersea 1932
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Battersea Borough]
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Maternity and Child Welfare Scheme.
The Maternity and Child Welfare Scheme of the Council
includes Municipal and Voluntary effort and the activities of both
are fully co-ordinated.
Maternity and Child Welfare Centres.
For administrative purposes, the Borough is divided into
districts, for each of which a Health Visitor is made responsible.
There are nine Maternity and Child Welfare Centres (Municipal,
6 ; Voluntary, 3).
The situation and times of opening of the Centres, municipal
and voluntary, are set out in the table on page 22.
Other ancillary services included in the Scheme are:—
(1) St. Mary's Hostel, Macaulay Road, Clapham Common (vide
page 26).
(2) St. Margaret's Day Nursery and Resident Hostel, Cambridge
Road (vide page 25).
It has been the practice for many years past in addition to
the grant received by the Voluntary Bodies from the Ministry of
Health, to subsidise them in order to keep their work efficient and
in uniformity with that of the Municipal Maternity Centres and
Clinics.
The Council are required, by a scheme made by the Minister of Health under the Local Government Act, 1929, to make annual payments for a period of three years to the Voluntary Bodies linked up with the Council's Maternity and Child Welfare Scheme as follows :—
| The Battersea School for Mothers | £513 |
| The Women's League of Service for Motherhood | £546 |
| The Chislehurst Mission | £28 |
| The St. Margaret's Day Nursery and Guest House | £555 |
The Council also made additional contributions in 1932 in connection with their Maternity and Child Welfare Scheme as under:—
| Invalid Children's Aid Association | £40 |
| St. Thomas's Babies' Hostel | £100 |
| Victoria Hospital for Children | £100 |
These amounts are equivalent to the grants formerly paid by
the Council, and those paid by the Ministry direct to the Associations.
In the case of the Battersea School for Mothers the Council,
at the request of the School in view of their financial needs, made an
additional grant of £100 for the year 1932.