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The number of still-births notified during the year was 83 or
2-4 per cent, of the corrected total births registered.
191 births of infants born outside the Borough, but children of
Battersea residents were notified from the district in which these
births occurred.
Notified births are visited and re-visited by the Council's official
Health Visitors and by the Health Visitors of the voluntary organizations
linked up with the Council's Maternity and Child Welfare
Scheme. The mothers are invited to bring their babies to the
various Welfare Centres included in the Battersea Maternity and
Child Welfare Scheme.
A weekly return of all births notified is sent to the London
County Council in accordance with the requirements of Sec. 5, subsec.
2 of the Notification of Births Act.
Maternity and Child Welfare Scheme.
The Battersea Maternity and Child Welfare Scheme, the revision
and development of which, under the provisions of the Maternity and
Child Welfare Act, 1918, was begun early in 1919, made useful progress
during 1923. The various activities included in the Scheme—
pre-natal, natal and post-natal—are now well co-ordinated, but
special attention was given to the development of the pre-natal side
of the work.
Maternity and Child Welfare Centres.
For administrative purposes the Borough is divided into six
areas. In each of these areas a Maternity and Child Welfare Centre
—municipal or voluntary—has been established. The Centres are
situate as follows :—
1. Municipal.
(а) Latchmere Baths (Burns Road).
(б) All Saints' Parish Hall (Prince of Wales Road).
(c) Plough Road Institution.
(d) Dental Centre and Clinics (Plough Road Institution).
2. Voluntary.
(a) Battersea School for Mothers (55 Mundella Road).
(b) Women's League of Service (111 Bridge Road West).
(c) Chislehurst Mission (St. James' Parish Hall, Ponton
Road, Nine Elms).
In addition to the above, ancillary activities included in the
Scheme comprise : (1) St. Mary's Hostel, Macaulay Road, Clapham
Common, and (2) St. Margaret's Day Nursery and Resident Hostel,
both of which Institutions are under voluntary control, but linked
up with the Battersea Maternity and Child Welfare Scheme and in
receipt of an annual grant from the Council.