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As the Maternity and Child Welfare Work tends to increase, not
only numerically but in importance, the time is now ripe for the
Committee to consider the advisability of appointing a second
Medical Officer. The following table explains the average number
of children attending the various Municipal Centres per session :—
Centre.
Number of Sessions
Per Week.
Number Attending
Per Session.
110, Grange Road
2
45
98, Rotherhithe New Road
2
52
43
34, Oxley Street
2
Manor Chapel, Roseberry Street
1
60
Trinity Road Schools
1
35
In addition to these there are two Ante-natal Sessions per month,
two Toddlers' Sessions per month, and one afternoon per week to
examine the mothers going to Fairby Grange Convalescent Home,
which makes a total equivalent to 10 medical sessions per week.
For this number we are paying as follows : One whole-time
Medical Officer £650 per annum, and two part-time Medical Officers,
who receive between them £250 per annum, and this with an extra
£50 for locums during Dr. Thynne's holiday, makes a total of £950
per annum. We could now do with more Sessions ; for instance,
an extra one at 110, Grange Road, 98, Rotherhithe New Road, and
Manor Chapel, Roseberry Street, and also two extra Toddlers'
Clinics per month at 98, Rotherhithe New Road, and two extra
Ante-natal Clinics, one at 98, Rotherhithe New Road and one at
110, Grange Road, which would bring the total number of Sessions
up to 14 per week.
The cost of these extra Sessions by employing part-time Medical
Officers would be £335 per annum, and this, with the total of £300
per annum we are now paying, makes a total of £1,285. For £600
a year we could have a whole-time Medical Officer, which would be
much more satisfactory, and make a total of £1,250. The plan I
propose to adopt is to divide the Borough into two parts according to