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MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE SCHEME.
The Maternity and Child Welfare Scheme of the Council
includes 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.
(a) Latchmere Baths (Burns Road Entrance).
(b) All Saints Parish Hall (Prince of Wales Road).
(c) Plough Road Baths.
(d) Chatham Hall (Chatham Road).
(e) 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,
Nine Elms).
Other ancillary services included in the Scheme are:—
(1) St. Mary's Hostel, Macaulay Road, Clapham Common.
(2) St. Margaret's Day Nursery and Resident Hostel, Cambridge
Road.
At each of the Centres a clinic is held, a woman Medical Officer
and a nurse being in attendance.
Each centre is under the supervision of a trained Health Visitor
and Voluntary Helpers assist in the work of these centres.
The Voluntary Centres are managed on similar lines to those of the
Municipal Centres.
The following table gives a summary of the work carried out
at the Centres in 1927:—