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Notification of Births Act.
During 1926 the number of notifications of live births received
was 2,839. The corrected number of births registered during the
year in Battersea was 2,969. The proportion of notified to registered
births was, therefore, 95.6 per cent.
The number of still births notified during the year was 71 or
2.4 of the total births.
245 births of Battersea children born in other districts were
notified from the districts in which these births occurred.
Notified births are visited and revisited by the Council's
official Health Visitors and the visitors of the Voluntary organisations
included in the Council's Maternity and Child Welfare Scheme.
A weekly return of all births notified is forwarded to the London
County Council, in accordance with the requirements of Sec. 5,
Sub-Sec. 2, of the Notification of Births Act.
MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE SCHEME.
The Maternity and Child Welfare Scheme of the Council
includes both Municipal and Voluntary effort and the activities of
both are fully co-ordinated. In order to enable the Voluntary
Associations to keep their work efficient and in uniformity with
that of the Municipal Centres and Clinics they receive, in addition
to the grants from the Ministry of Health, an annual contribution
from the Council.
Maternity and Child Welfare Centres.
The Centres, Municipal and Voluntary, are situate as follows :—
1 Municipal.
(а) Latchmere Baths (Burns Road Entrance).
(b) All Saints Parish Hall (Prince of Wales Road).
(c) Plough Road Institution.
(d) Chatham Hall (Chatham Road).
(e) Dental Centre and Clinic (Plough Road).
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,
Nine Elms).
Other ancillary services included in the Scheme are:—
(1) St. Mary's Hostel, Macaulay Road, Clapham Common and
(2) St. Margaret's Day Nursery and Hostel, Cambridge Road.