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The voluntary committees also agreed (a) that the new scales
should be applied from the 30th June, 1937, on the basis that
every health visitor should receive a salary based on her present
salary plus one increment, or the minimum salary of the newscheme,
whichever is the greater, and that subsequent increments
should be payable on the 1st April in each year ; (b) that part-time
health visitors should be paid a salary at the same rates as above
but calculated pro rata to the time worked ; (c) that in the cases of
those health visitors who will not have completed one year's sei vice
by the 30th June, 1937, and whose present salaries are not less than
the minimum of the new scales, the first increment shall not be
payable until the 1st April, 1938 ; (d) that in the case of new
entrants to the service during the first half of any financial year,
the first annual increment shall become payable on the 1st April
following the appointment, and with regard to such entrants
during the second half of any financial year, the first annual
increment shall become payable on the 1st April next after the
one following, thus conforming to the procedure adopted by the
Council in connexion with appointments to their own staff.
The health visitors of the welfare centres are also pensioned under
the Federated Superannuation Scheme of Nurses and Hospital
Officers (Contributory).
Ten years ago salaries were as low as £150 a year with no regular
increments, no uniform allowance and no pension, and it is therefore
a great satisfaction to all concerned that so great a measure of
success has been achieved in obtaining a satisfactory standard of
salaries and emoluments.
Summary
The table on pages 42 and 43 indicates the scope of the facilities
available under the aegis of the Lambeth Maternity and Child Welfare
Scheme and points to the success of the undertaking as a whole
by the great numbers attending the clinics and in other ways
making use of the diverse facilities provided.
The cost to the Local Authority of the Lambeth Maternity and
Child Welfare Scheme since its inception in 1916, and the fall