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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.
The additional Centre referred to in the Annual Report for
1929 was opened at the Gideon Road L.C.C. School, on 9th April,
1930, to meet the needs of the populous area of the South Eastern
portion of the Borough. The Centre has proved a very useful
addition to the work, for reasons set out in my previous report.
An additional session was also opened at the Plough Road
Institution during 1930.
The table on page 29 gives a summary of the work carried
out at the Centres in 1930.
Health Visitors.
The Health Visiting Staff consists of 10 full time Health Visitors.
Two of these are partly employed as Women Sanitary Inspectors.
Facilities are granted by the Council to students of recognised
Training Bodies for practical instruction and training as Health
Visitors and Women Sanitary Inspectors. During the year a
number of students from the Hygiene Department, Battersea
Polytechnic, received a course of training under the Council's
Maternity and Child Welfare Scheme.
The Council have, for the past few years, granted permission,
so far as the exigencies of the work of the Department allow, to their
Health Visiting Staff to attend the Winter School for Health Visitors
organised by the Women's Public Health Officers Association. In
1930 two of the Health Visitors were given leave of absence for
the purpose.

* These visits, having been made in conjunction with visits on other matters
already enumerated, are not included in the total.