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Voluntary Centres.
Women's League of Service.—The Battersea centre of this League
(formerly held at 111 Bridge Road West) was established in 1911,
and was transferred to Southlands in 1928.
The district served by the League is a populous one adjoining
the Thames, and situate between Battersea Bridge Road and Battersea
High Street. A qualified Health Visitor (Miss F. Pethybridge) undertakes
the usual duties of a health visitor within the district.
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 £574 10s. Od. towards the expenses.
An important feature of the work of the League is the provision
of dinners for nursing and expectant mothers and children at a minimum
charge or free. Although provided mainly for residents in the
League's district, mothers and children from other parts of the Borough
are, in suitable cases, sent to the dining rooms and supplied with
dinners.
4,603 women and 3,930 children were supplied with dinners on
the 217 days on which the centre was open for this purpose.