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All Lambeth notified births are referred to the various voluntary
Welfare Centres which are now comprised in the Lambeth Maternity
and Child Welfare Scheme (approved by the Ministry of Health), and,
in connection therewith, are visited and re-visited systematically, the
mothers attending at such Centres, if and when they wish, or can be
persuaded, to do so.
It is impossible to give statistics of the educational value of this
visiting of houses wherein births have been notified, but there is no
doubt as to the existence of such educational value.
A list of all notified births is sent to the London County Council
weekly in pursuance of sub-section 5, of section 2, of the Act, and the
Medical Officers of Health concerned are written to in connection with
babies, which are born in Lambeth Public Institutions but which
belong (for classification purposes) to Districts outside the Borough.

Lambeth Maternity and Child Welfare Scheme.
The Lambeth Maternity and Child Welfare Scheme was
inaugurated by the Council on the 13th April, 1916, and, in connection
therewith, for administrative purposes, the Borough is now, with the
approval of the Ministry of Health, sub-divided into 12 administrative
welfare areas—each area administered by a voluntary welfare centre
committee, as follows :—
1. North Marsh, Cornwall Road, New Cut.†
2. The Barley Mow, 52, Oakley Street.
* Vide also Special Report on the Maternity Needs of the Borough of
Lambeth (Appendix III) of the 1924 Annual Report of the Medical Officer of
Health.
† Formerly North Marsh 'Morley College), Webber Street.