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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 shewn in the tables
on the previous pages.
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.
In September, 1935, the London County Council informed the
Council that the Public Assistance Department, which occupied part
of the disused school building at Gideon Road (also used by the
Council as a centre), desired to take over the whole of the building,
and suggested that alternative accommodation might be arranged
for the Council at Wickersley Road school. The subject was considered
by the Health Committee at several meetings, but in August,
1936, intimation was received from the County Council that the
Public Assistance Department no longer required additional
accommodation, and the matter therefore dropped.
Mothercraft Classes.
Instruction in mothercraft has been given weekly at 5 centres
during the year, the average attendance being respectively :—
Southlands and 55 Mundella Road... 13-4
Gideon Road 17-9 Women's League of
Chatham Road ... 17-8 Service (Southlands) 15-4
Plough Road ... 16-4
The class formerly held at Southlands was transferred to the
Gideon Road centre on 16th March, 1936.
In total there were 243 meetings with a total attendance of
3,901, giving on average 16-1 attendances per session.
Voluntary Centres.
Women's League of Service.—The Battersea centre of this
League (formerly situated at 111 Bridge Road West) was established
in 1911, and was transferred to Southlands, Castle Street, in 1928.
The League hold a formal lease from the Council (renewed in 1936)
of a portion of the building.
The district served by the League is a populous one adjoining
the Thames, and situate between Battersea Bridge Road and High
Street, and a qualified Health Visitor (Miss F. Pethybridge) undertakes
the usual duties of a health visitor within the district.
In December the Council appointed Mrs. M. J. Robinson to
represent them upon the Committee of the Association.
The centre is carried on as an integral part of the Council's
Maternity and Child Welfare scheme, and the Council make an annual
grant of £546 towards the expenses.