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and where, owing to increased cost of administration and to
decreased voluntary contributions, the efficiency of these
voluntary organisations' work was being threatened or actually
affected, the Council came to the rescue by giving adequate
grants and other assistance to enable these voluntary bodies to
maintain the standard of their work.
In the Annual Report for 1920 the various activities of the
Council's comprehensive maternity and child welfare scheme
have been outlined. It will only be necessary, therefore, briefly
to recapitulate under their respective headings the component
parts of the scheme, both municipal and voluntary.
Maternity and Child Welfare Centres.
These are:—
1. Municipal—
(a) Latchmere Baths (West Battersea).
(b) Battersea Park Tabernacle (East Battersea).
(c) Plough Road Institution.
(d) Dental Centre and Clinic (Plough Road
Baths).
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' Hall,
Ponton Road).
In addition to these Maternity and Child Welfare Centres
there are: (1) St. Mary's Hostel (for unmarried mothers and
their children), and (2) St. Margaret's Creche and Day
Nursery, 10 and 12 Cambridge Road, also under voluntary
management and control, but linked up with the Council's
scheme, and in receipt of an annual grant from the Council.
These voluntary organisations are working in close cooperation
with the Council's Maternity and Child Welfare
work, and reports of the work done under their supervision
are regularly submitted to the Medical Officer of Health, who
is ex-officio a member of their Executive Committees.
For administrative purposes the Borough is divided into
six areas—4 municipal and 2 voluntary—in each of which a
Welfare Centre is established. There are 6 centres, superintended
by trained Health Visitors, and to each centre is
attached a clinic, at which a woman medical officer is in
attendance. The voluntary centres are managed on similar lines
to those of the official centres, and an area is mapped out for
their activities, in which they are responsible for the visiting