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—municipal or voluntary—has been established. The Centres are
situate as follows:—
1. Municipal.
(a) Latchmere Baths (Burns Road).
(b) All Saints' Parish Hall (Prince of Wales Road).
(c) Plough Road Institution.
(d) Chatham Hall, Chatham Road.
(e) Dental Centre and Clinics (Plough Road Institution).
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' Parish Hall, Ponton
Road, Nine Elms).
In addition to the above, ancillary activities included in the
Scheme comprise: (1) St. Mary's Hostel, Macaulay Road, Clapham
Common, and (2) St. Margaret's Day Nursery and Resident Hostel,
both of which Institutions are under voluntary control, but linked
up with the Battersea Maternity and Child Welfare Scheme and in
receipt of an annual grant from the Council.
A new Maternity and Child Welfare Centre was opened in
April at Chatham House, Chatham Road. This district, although
it is populated in the main by a more prosperous class of inhabitant,
yet contains a growing minority of less well-to-do families. Hitherto
it had been necessary for mothers to travel a considerable distance to
the nearest Centres—Plough Road and the Latchmere. The
establishment of the Chatham Road Centre has, therefore, been
a great boon to the inhabitants of the surrounding district, and
moreover it has relieved to a considerable extent the congestion at
Latchmere and Plough Road Centres, thereby contributing to
greater comfort and efficiency at these latter Centres.
The success which has followed the opening of this new Centre
is shown in the statistical summary in the table on page 22.
Each Child Welfare Centre is under the superintendence of a
trained Health Visitor, 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 Municipal
Centres. The Child Welfare work at two of the voluntary associations'
Centres is under the superintendence of one of the Council's
Health Visitors.
The work carried out at the various Municipal Infant Welfare
Centres during 1924 is summarised as follows:—