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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.
Maternity and Child Welfare Centres.
For administrative purposes, the Borough is divided into
districts, for each of which a Health Visitor is made responsible.
There are nine Maternity and Child Welfare Centres (Municipal,
6 ; Voluntary, 3).
The situation and times of opening of the Centres, municipal
and voluntary, are set out in the table on page 22.
Other ancillary services included in the Scheme are:—
(1) St. Mary's Hostel, Macaulay Road, Clapham Common (vide
page "26).
(2) St. Margaret's Day Nursery and Resident Hostel, Cambridge
Road (vide page 25).
The contributions which the Council for many years made to
the voluntary bodies linked with their Maternity and Child Welfare
Scheme were superseded, on the passing of the Local Government
Act, 1929, by grants fixed by the Ministry of Health in a scheme
made under the provisions of that Act.
The first scheme, which operated from the 1st April, 1930,
expired in 1933, and under a new scheme made by the Ministry,
which came into force on 1st April, 1933, the new payments to be
made by the Council were as follows:—
The Battersea School for Mothers £613
The Women's League of Service for Motherhood £546
The Chislehurst Mission £28
The St. Margaret's Day Nursery and Guest House £500
These amounts are approximately equivalent to the grants
formerly paid by the Council and those paid by the Ministry direct
to the Associations.
The Council also made additional contributions in the financial
year 1933-34 in connection with their Maternity and Child Welfare
Scheme as under:—
Invalid Children's Aid Association £40
St. Thomas's Babies' Hostel (vide page 29) £150
Victoria Hospital for Children £100