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At each of the centres a clinic is held once or twice weekly with
a woman Medical Officer in attendance, as set out in the table
on the previous page.
Each centre is under the supervision of a trained Health Visitor
and voluntary helpers assist in the work of the centres. The
voluntary centres are conducted on similar lines to those of the
municipal centres.
The Health Committee at their December meeting gave
instructions that the mothercraft classes formerly held at the
Southlands and Chatham Hall Centres, which had been discontinued
since 1933 should be resumed. The necessary arrangements
had not been completed at the end of the year, but the classes were
re-started early in 1935.
The table on the next page gives a summary of the work
carried out at the centres in 1934.
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 eight
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.