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Maternity and Child Welfare Centres.
The Borough is divided into nine Health Visitor's districts,
in each of which a centre, either municipal or voluntary is situate.
Each Health Visitor is assigned a district for the home visiting in
which she is responsible. The average number of home visits paid
by Health Visitors in 1928 was approximately 3,000.
The Centres, Municipal and Voluntary, are situate as follows :—
1. Municipal.
(a) Southlands, High Street (entrance in Castle Street).
(b) All Saints Parish Hall (Prince of Wales Road).
(c) Plough Road Baths.
(d) Chatham Hall (Chatham Road).
(e) Dental Centre and Clinic (Southlands).
(/) Maternity Hospital, out-patients' department (anteand
post-natal clinics).
2. Voluntary.
(а) Battersea School for Mothers (55 Mundella Road).
(b) Women's League of Service (Southlands, Castle
Street).
(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 conducted on similar lines to those of the
Municipal Centres.
Owing to the growth of the work in connection with the
Council's various centres, and the distance of the Bolingbroke
Ward and neighbourhood from the nearest Centre, the Maternity
and Child Welfare Committee decided to recommend the Council
to establish an additional centre in that Ward, and to appoint a
Health Visitor to supervise the work in that district and centre.
The sanction of the Ministry of Health has been obtained to the
proposed extension and steps were being taken at the end of the
year to obtain suitable accommodation. The transfer of the centre
formerly held at Latchmere Baths to Southlands has considerably
increased the distance to the nearest Centre for those mothers
residing in the neighbourhood of South-east Battersea.
The following table gives a summary of the work carried out
at the Centres in 1928 :—