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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 Districts.
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, 7 ;
Voluntary, 2).
The situation and times of opening of the centres, municipal
and voluntary, and the work carried out thereat, are set out in the
tables on the next two pages.
Ancillary services included in the scheme are
(1) St. Mary's Hostel, Macaulay Road, Clapham Common (vide
page 39).
(2) St. Margaret's Day Nursery and Resident Hostel, Cambridge
Road (vide page 44).
The annual contributions which the Council make to the
voluntary bodies linked with their Maternity and Child Welfare
scheme under the Local Government Act, 1929, as revised by
the Ministry of Health in 1933, are as follows:—
The Battersea School for Mothers £613
(This payment ceased on the Council taking over
the centre on 25th June, 1935—see page 22)
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
which, prior to 1930, were paid by the Council, together with those
paid by the Ministry direct to the Associations.
The Council also made additional contributions in the financial
year 1935-36 in connection with their Maternity and Child Welfare
scheme as under:—
Invalid Children's Aid Association £40
St. Thomas's Babies' Hostel (vide page 41) £150
Victoria Hospital for Children £100
Southwark Diocesan Association for Moral Welfare £150