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There are four tenements in the Shelter, and one of them is
at present occupied by the Committee for the Unemployed,
while the three others are used as a Maternity and Child
Welfare Centre. The result of this is that if we are threatened
by an epidemic, such as the ease of small-pox which occurred
last spring, we have great difficulty in accommodating the
contacts, and it means suddenly displacing the present occupants
of the Shelter, greatly to their inconvenience. I should
be glad if we could have a Centre which could be devoted
solely to Maternity and Child Welfare near the Town Hall,
and I cannot imagine a more suitable building than the
Hostel. No structural alteration will be necessary for this
purpose, but figures will be submitted for the redecorations
which will be required; but as no money will be required to
be expended on this purpose for the present year, it will not
make any alteration in our estimates up to March 31st, 1924.
The furniture at present there could be redistributed, as
there are several articles in the Hostel which would be useful
to Fairby Grange, and a few of them may be required in some
of the other Centres. Apart altogether from the closing of
the Hostel, the present position of the Town Hall Centre is
most inconvenient, and is very difficult for the mothers to
find, the approaches being through the Depot. There is also
a tannery adjacent, which creates a very unpleasant odour,
and the road leading to it is frequently blocked up with carts,
so that mothers have great difficulty in getting into the
Shelter with their perambulators.
I recommend, therefore, that the Hostel be discontinued
as from March 31st, 1924, as a Lying-in-Home, and that the
building be used as a Maternity and Child Welfare Centre
from that date onwards."
The recommendation contained in the last paragraph of this
report was adopted by the Committee and the Council.
In April of this year, the Centre which was formerly held in
the Shelter, Neckinger, was transferred to 110, Grange Road,