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101
MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE.
There are in the Borough 10 Municipal Centres, Voluntary and
partly Voluntary and partly Municipal for the attendance of mothers
and children under 5 years of age. Sessions are also held for ante-natal
work amongst expectant mothers.
There is an assistant doctor to the Medical Officer of Health for
maternity work and three part time doctors attached to other centres.
There is also a Superintendent Health Visitor and 10 Health Visitors.
The district being so well supplied with Maternity Wards in general
Hospitals and childrens' Hospitals, and also having the York Road
Lying-in Hospital extending its excellent work into the district, there is
uo need for the Borough to undertake a Maternity Home or Hospital
for babies on its own account.
Ante-natal sessions are held every week at two Municipal Centres
and the same is also done at the Maternity Centre of Guy's Hospital.
Orthopædic Treathent.—This is undertaken by the London
County Council and the General Hospitals in the Borough.
The voluntary societies co-ordinating are the Invalid Childrens Aid
Society, and the Southwark Invalid Kitchens Society, which both do
good work.
As all the children attending the centres are under 5 years of age
there is no connection with the school medical service until they are
transferred to school.