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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.
Owing to the economic situation no additional centres have
been opened since 1930.
The table on page 24 gives a summary of the work carried
out at the Centres in 1931.
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 sixteen
students from the Hygiene Department, Battersea Polytechnic,
received a course of training under the Council's Maternity and
Child Welfare Scheme, and on completion of their training certificates
as to their work were supplied to the Polytechnic authorities.
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
1931 two of the Health Visitors were given leave of absence for
the purpose.