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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 44).
(2) St. Margaret's Day Nursery and Resident Hostel, Cambridge
Road (vide page 48).
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, were under review
in 1936 by the Minister of Health, who invited the Council's views
as to the amount of annual contributions which should be paid by
them during the quinquennium ending March, 1942. The Council
expressed their willingness to continue their existing contributions,
which were as follows :—
The Women's League of Service for Motherhood... £546
The Chislehurst Mission £28
The St. Margaret's Day Nursery and Guest House £500
subject in the last mentioned case to a condition which is referred
to on page 49.
The Council also made other contributions in the financial
year 1936-37 in connection with their Maternity and Child Welfare
scheme as under :—
Invalid Children's Aid Association (vide page 49) £50
National Baby Week Council £2 2s.
St. Thomas's Babies' Hostel (vide page 46) ... £150
South London District Nursing Association (vide
page 46) £300
Southwark Diocesan Association for Moral Welfare
(vide page 44) £150
Victoria Hospital for Children £100