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health visitor staff must be reviewed when the clinic is organised, but the
present staff can manage the extra work for the time being.
Stockwell Mothers' and Babies' Welfare Centre.
The Committee are unanimously of the opinion that a toddlers clinic
with sessions at monthly intervals would meet the present requirements,
and that the usual proportion of the expenditure could be raised from
voluntary sources. The Committee feel that they are not in a position
to make any suggestion regarding an increase in the health visitor staff
until the scheme has materialised.
Brixton Infant Welfare Centre and School for Mothers.
The Committee are of the opinion that a special toddlers clinic with
fortnightly sessions is needed, and that the services of an extra worker
for one-half day a week would be sufficient to cope for the time being
with the added duties entailed. The financial assistance of the Borough
Council on the ordinary basis would be sufficient, as the Committee feel
that they should be able to raise the one-eighth proportion from voluntary
sources.
The Loughborough Junction Maternity and Child Welfare Centre.
The Committee do not feel that a toddlers clinic or an extra session
is required at the present time. In the event of one being needed, the
Committee are prepared to hold themselves responsible for finding one-eighth
of the expenditure involved.
West Norwood Maternity and Babies' Welfare Centre.
A toddlers clinic is needed and would be successful, particularly if
attendances were controlled by appointment. The Committee suggest
that sessions at fortnightly intervals would be required at the start, and
if, as thought likely, the numbers increased, a weekly session would in
all probability then be necessary. Home visits would, of course, be reduced
unless extra health visitor staff were employed, but until the scheme is
working no estimation of the additional staff is practicable. The voluntary
committee are prepared to shoulder the extra financial responsibility of
one-eighth of the expenditure involved.
St. Thomas's Hospital (Main Building) Welfare Centre.
A weekly session of the toddlers clinic has been held for some years, and
no increase in the facilities provided is needed now.
General Lying-in Hospital Welfare Centre.
A special toddlers clinic has been held weekly for a long time, and no
addition to the existing facilities is needed at present.
2. Treatment of Minor Ailments, etc.
Again on the instruction of the Maternity and Child Welfare Committee,
the welfare centres have been approached to ascertain their views with
regard to co-operation with the County Medical Officer of Health for the
various school clinics to be made available for the treatment of cases
referred to them from the welfare centres.
The replies from the Committees are unanimous in suggesting a
definite scheme of co-operation with the voluntary hospitals or other
institutions for the purpose, which would be an extension of the unofficial
and rather unsatisfactory voluntary linking which obtains at present,
rather than to make use of the school clinics. It will be remembered that