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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 responsible. Following
upon the appointment of two additional health visitors (vide page
26) a fresh division was made in 1937, the number of districts being
increased from twelve to fourteen.
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.
Grants and Contributions.
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 are to make to the
voluntary bodies, under the Local Government Act, 1929, during
the quinquennium ending March, 1942, which had been under
review in 1936 by the Minister of Health, were fixed at the following
amounts:—
The Women's League of Service for Motherhood. £546
The Chislehurst Mission £28
The St. Margaret's Day Nursery £500
The Council made other contributions in the financial
year 1937-38 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 47) £300
Southwark Diocesan Association for Moral Welfare
(vide page 44) £150
Victoria Hospital for Children £100