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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 received during the year, in
addition to the grants from the Ministry of Health, an annual
contribution from the Council.
Maternity and Child Welfare Centres.
The Borough is divided into ten Health Visitor's districts,
and there are eight maternity and child welfare centres (5 municipal
and 3 voluntary). 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 1929 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.
(a) 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.