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Developments and Changes in the Maternity and
Child Welfare Scheme during the Year
(i) Institutional provision for Mothers and Children.
One bed at the Zacchary Merton Convalescent Home, Rustington,
maintained by the Borough Council, has been filled throughout the
whole period from the time the home was opened on 28th April.
The demand was greater than the accommodation could provide
and the Council have therefore decided to maintain a second bed.
Each bed includes accommodation for an infant and a toddler
with the mother.
(ii) Health Visitors.
Largely owing to the increase of work connected with the
toddlers' clinics there were the following additions to the number
of health visitors employed by the voluntary organisations in the
Lambeth scheme:—One part-time at each of the following: "Rose
McAndrew," Brixton and Stockwell Welfare Centres ; one wholetime
at St. Anne's Centre, and at North Brixton Centre the part-time
Health Visitor was engaged whole-time ; in all the equivalent of
three health visitors were added during the year.
The health visitors directly in the employment of the Council are
all placed in grade B of the London District Council scale, i.e., £215
rising by £15 per annum to £390 together with a uniform allowance
of £10. Those employed by the voluntary organisations have
been receiving salaries varying from £190 to £250 per annum,
some with and others without uniform allowances, which varied
from £10 to £25 a year. Others had residence or partial board.
The discrepancies in emoluments and the lack of any uniform or
satisfactory scale of increments had for some years been a source
of dissatisfaction and led the Council to adopt the following
uniform scale of salaries and emoluments which were agreed to
by all the voluntary organisations employing health visitors:—
Senior health visitors—£250, rising by annual increments of
£12 10s. Od. to £300 per annum.
Health visitors—£200, rising by annual increments of £10 to
£250 per annum.
together with a uniform allowance in each case of £10 per
annum.