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with the Council of Social Welfare upon the questions involved, it
being desirable that their concurrence should be obtained to these
proposals, as they were the recipients of a block grant paid annually
and amounting to £725, which grant would be discontinued under
any such transfer scheme.
The Maternity and Child Welfare Committee finally came to the
conclusion that, for the present, it was desirable to limit their proposals
to certain revised arrangements which had been agreed with the
Council of Social Welfare. The proposals were:—that the Council
of Social Welfare should close down their Dental Clinic at the Health
Institute, leaving the whole of this work to be carried out by a central
Clinic of the Borough Council at the Public Health Station, Lithos
Road. This involved no additional expenditure so far as the Borough
Council was concerned, except the small cost of fitting up the new
room, and it saved the Council of Social Welfare an annual expenditure
which in the Standard Year amounted to £119 17s. In respect
of this dental work, the Council of Social Welfare originally received
under the block grant a sum of £105 2s. 9d.; on a re-adjustment of
dental work on the 1st April, 1931, whereby the Borough Council
relieved the Council of Social Welfare of a part of their services, the
Council of Social Welfare agreed to refund, and had since refunded
annually, the sum of £45 4s. 3d. to the Council. It was felt that on
the transfer of the balance of the dental work, the Council of Social
Welfare should refund a further amount of £59 18s. 6d. The Council
of Social Welfare, however, asked that they should, as from the
taking over of the dental work by the Council, be permitted to retain
both these sums, i.e., a total annual amount of £105 2s. 9d. included
in the grant in respect of work which they would no longer undertake.
They were prepared, however, to give an undertaking that this sum
should be definitely earmarked and applied for an extension of the
work in connection with the Toddlers' Clinics. This £105 2s. 9d. was
equivalent to an additional grant to the Council of Social Welfare,
who were, in addition, saved a net amount of £59 18s. 6d. by the
handing over of the work. By a letter, dated 6th July, 1933, the
Council of Social Welfare withdrew all applications for further grant.
In connection with disadvantageous conditions of working which
previously existed in connection with the Infant Welfare Centres, the