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10. West Norwood Maternity and Child Welfare Centre, Scott
Memorial Hall, Rommany Road, West Norwood.
11. West Norwood Creche and Day Nurseries, Pilgrim Hill.
N.B.— In addition to the above, the Borough of Lambeth is
well supplied with the following maternity and other
special hospitals or departments of hospitals, situated
within the Borough, for the use of women and young children,
e.g., General Lying-in, St. Thomas's, King's,
Clapham Maternity, Royal Waterloo, Belgrave, etc.
The second part of the question can be answered by the following
suggestions, viz., that the Council should—
(1) Amalgamate and co-ordinate still more with the Council's
Official work, and bring into one comprehensive Scheme,
the whole of the work of the various present and future
Non-Official or Voluntary Agencies, and for such a
purpose should
(a) Pass a resolution approving such amalgamation
and co-ordination, and authorising the Council's
Officers to get into communication with the necessary
Agencies; or, as an alternative,
(b) Ask the Mayor to call a meeting at the Town
Hall, and to invite representatives to be present
from all the known Non-Official or Voluntary
Agencies which are dealing throughout the
Borough with the work of Maternity and Child
Welfare for the purpose of inaugurating the
comprehensive Scheme for the Borough, as set
out, and
(2) Appoint at once one additional Official Health Visitor to
be attached to the Council's Public Health Department.
The average yearly number of births notified within the Borough
is 7,000-8,000, and one Official Health Visitor is not sufficient to
carry out satisfactorily the work arising therefrom. By the
appointment at once of one additional Official Health Visitor,
the Borough might be divided, with advantage, into two administrative
areas, viz.,
(a) Inner Wards and (b) Outer Wards,
each area to be under the control of a separate official Health
Visitor, who would be responsible to the Council, through the
Medical Officer of Health, for securing amalgamation, and coordination,
of work amongst the various Non-Official or Voluntary
Agencies, and for ensuring systematic re-visiting of all houses at
which births have been notified, such systematic re-visiting being,
in my opinion, of the greatest value and importance.
With reference to Grants in aid of expenditure, several of the
Non-Official or Voluntary Agencies working within the Borough
have already applied successfully either to the Local Government
Board or to the Board of Education. These Grants have been
voted by the latter Board on the certificate of the Borough Medical