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Health Visitors.
The Health Visiting staff consists of 12 full time Health Visitors,
two of whom are partly employed as women Sanitary Inspectors.
Facilities are granted by the Council to students of recognised
training bodies for practical instruction and training as Health
Visitors and women Sanitary Inspectors. During the year nine
students from the Hygiene Department, Battersea Polytechnic,
received a course of training under the Council's Maternity and
Child Welfare scheme, and, on completion of their training, certificates
as to their work were supplied to the Polytechnic authorities.

Hospital Provision,
In addition to the provision of midwifery services, hospital
and district, the Council have provided facilities for the needs of
children requiring special hospital treatment by arrangement with
the Victoria Hospital for Children, Chelsea, and the St. Thomas's
Babies' Hostel (vide page 41). The Council contribute an annual
sum to these Hospitals in respect of the facilities afforded (vide
page 19). Women and children are referred where necessary
from the ante-natal and child welfare centres to appropriate
institutions, children being usually sent to one of the above
named hospitals.
The Council also undertake, on behalf of various hospitals, to
visit and report on the home conditions of Battersea women and
children receiving treatment in the obstetric, gynaecological and
other departments of the hospitals.