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v.—MATERNITY AND CHILD
WELFARE.
There have been one or two features of special interest in
connection with this section of the work during the year. For a
number of years a very successful clinic has been maintained by
voluntary effort at the Princess Marie Louise Club at 110 Jamaica
Road. Owing partly to augmented expenditure and partly to the
demands upon the time of Lady Hawke, the Honorary Secretary,
it was found increasingly difficult to maintain this organisation on
a voluntary basis. After somewhat lengthy negotiations, it was
finally decided that the centre should be taken over by the Borough
Council and conducted in future as a Municipal Centre. The
change took place on January Ist, 1930. The Committee expressed
their appreciation of the very valuable work which had
been done by the voluntary organisation under the guidance of
Lady Hawke. No other change of importance has taken place in
the general work of the Clinics, but it is to be noted that there has
been a general increase in every branch of the work. This has
necessitated an additional Infant Clinic at 110 Grange Road, and
it is probable that additional Ante-Natal Clinics will be required
at 110 Grange Road and at 98 Rotherhithe New Road in the
near future.
The scale of assessment for free and half-price milk supplied
under the Maternity and Child Welfare Scheme was revised on
8th October, 1929, with the approval of the Ministry, and the
new scale came into operation on 22nd October, 1929. Under
this new scale there will, of course, be an increase in the number of
persons receiving milk.
MIDWIFERY SERVICE.
The Maternity and Child Welfare Committee at its meeting
on the 14th May considered an application from the Treasurer of
the St. Olave's District Nursing Association for a grant towards
expenses in connection with the proposed addition to their staff