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TABLE II - SUBJECTS
Talks
Attendances
Care of mothers and
young children
700
5,647
Prevention of accidents
32
454
General family health
90
1,502
Infectious diseases
16
206
First aid
14
183
Care of older children
16
199
Smoking and lung cancer
6
102
Family planning
1
15
Cancer
3
19
Other
240
2,324
1,118
10,651
TABLE III - AUDIENCES
Audiences
Groups
Totals
Expectant mothers
510
3,376
Schools
187
3,258
Over 60's
6
26
Student nurses
15
184
Under 5's
3
56
General public
1
25
Expectant parents
7
151
Parents
12
231
Women over 25
3
19
Mothers
373
3,300
Social worker students
1
25
1,118
10,651
ACQUISITION OF LEASE OF THE VIOLET MELCHETT CENTRE.
The Violet Melchett Infant Welfare Centre was a voluntary organisation
which had provided for many years on the premises at Flood Walk, S.W.3.,
ante-natal and child welfare clinics, a day nursery, mothercraft unit and
a college for the training of student nursery nurses. Under the former
London County Council, the organisation was reimbursed its total approved
expenditure on these services and this arrangement had been continued by
this Council.
It was felt that these services should be more closely integrated
with similar services provided elsewhere by the Council, and it was
becoming evident that the operation of the mothercraft unit which provided
the training college facilities was impracticable and uneconomic under
existing conditions.
Discussions took place between the Executive Committee of the
voluntary organisation and the Council in 1967, which culminated with an
invitation to the Council to take over the premises and continue to run
their services direct. The Council subsequently purchased the leasehold
at a cost of £47,500 and assumed possession on 1st January, 1968.