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in Fulham and St. Pancras. The establishment consists of two parts,
viz. (1) a Centre and (2) Branches:
(l) A central establishment at which, in systematic classes, advice
is given in the care and management of infants and little
children up to school age; domestic and personal hygiene,
home nursing, sewing and cooking. There will also be given
at this centre medical and surgical advice to mothers, infants
and children. It will be a kind of clearing house for patients,
so that each sufferer can be directed to the hospital or dispensary
best fitted to give the treatment needed. Further, it
will be the co-ordinating centre of the work of the Branches
and the welcome for mothers. It will be open daily except
on Sundays.
(2) The borough will be divided into districts or branches, some of
them under voluntary and others under municipal control.
The branches will undertake the home visiting of the mothers,
infants and children.
The whole borough will be divided into six districts, four of which
will be under voluntary workers and two under municipal workers.
The voluntary ones will be:—
(a) The St. John's Branch in Larcom Street, attending to 1,232
infants annually in St. John's and St. Mary's Wards.
(b) The Nelson Square Settlement, attending to 343 infants in
St. Jude's Ward.
(c) The prospective Walworth Branch, now being formed,
ing to 1,093 infants in All Saints' and one half of St. George's
Wards.
(d) The Crossways Mission, attending to 799 infants in Trinity
and one half of St. George's Wards.
The Municipal Branches will be:—
(e) The St. Michael's Branch, attending to 1,153 infants in St.
Michael's, St. Saviour's and Christchurch Wards.
(f) The St. Peter's Branch attending to 984 infants in St. Peter's
and St. Paul's Wards.
The children will be visited up to school age, which may be taken
as four years. At the end of four years each branch will on an average