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In the development of general schemes the Board desire
that the services of hospitals and other efficient voluntary
agencies should be fully utilised. They are also anxious that
the co-operation of medical practitioners should be secured.
The value of a maternity centre will be much increased by
obtaining the co-operation of the medical practitioners in the
area to be served by it and in organising the arrangements it
is desirable that they should be consulted.
I would add to this, that the co-operation and assistance
of the local midwives is very essential to the efficient working
of the scheme, more especially the ante-natal part.
It is also suggested that much of the required work can
be provided by various hospitals and voluntary agencies at
work, and in some cases the chief need is to secure that the
work is co-ordinated and properly linked up with that done
by the Borough Council.
In Hammersmith a large amount of work is done
amongst nursing mothers and children, and a lesser amount
among expectant mothers, but both require extending and
developing.
I he principal Societies at work in the Borough are :—
1. Hammersmith School for Mothers, i, Shaftesbury
Road East.
This Society has been in existence since 1911,
and has opened the following branches :—
(а) Becklow Road, opened May, 1915.
(б) College Park, opened July, 1915.
(c) Blacks Road, opened July, 1915.
2. The Mothers' Welcome, Bramley Road.
This Welcome is on the Kensington side of
Bramley Road but is utilised by the whole of
the district round Latimer Road in Hammersmith,
East of the London & North Western
Railway, and the district is visited by their
nurses.
3. The Women's League of Service, Sulgrave Road.
This Society opened at Blythe Road, but has now
removed to Sulgrave Road where they have
more adequate premises.
In addition to the above there are three creches or day
nurseries in the Borough. These are principally concerned