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6. Maternity and Nursing Homes.—There are no such homes under the
control of the City Council.
7. There are no changes to report in the institutional provision for
unmarried mothers, illegitimate infants and homeless children.
8. Ambulance Facilities.—The various services were fully detailed in
the report for 1930 and, so far as is known, no changes or extensions have
been effected.
9. Clinics and Treatment Centres.—While there have been no additions
to the number of centres, the year has been made noteworthy by the
opening of a new tuberculosis dispensary and three new maternity and
child welfare centres, one of these being the centre of the Westminster
Health Society. These four new institutions replace four which have
been given up or demolished and are situated as follows:—-
1. Tuberculosis Dispensary and Maternity and Child Welfare Centre,
Ebury Bridge, Buckingham Palace Road, S.W.I.
2. Maternity and Child Welfare Centre, Marshall Street, Golden
Square, W.l.
3. Westminster Health Society, 121, Marsham Street, S.W.I.
(1) It will be recollected that since 1916 the Council's tuberculosis
dispensary and a maternity and child welfare centre were housed in the
old building at Ebury Bridge. In 1930, on the adjoining land, the Ebury
Bridge Housing Scheme was developed and the old building was cleared
away to permit of a much needed street widening. Very near to the old
site a new building of four storeys has been erected. The ground floor,
consisting of seven rooms, constitutes the tuberculosis dispensary. There
is a wide entrance hall which opens out into a larger irregular space in the
centre of the building. The various rooms approached from this central
space are a main office with smaller office communicating ; waiting-room,
weighing-room, dressing-room, consulting-room and medical officers'
rooms. There is also a large room where handicrafts can be
carried on by ex-sanatorium patients. These rooms communicate
with each other and are planned to meet the needs of a modern
tuberculosis dispensary. The first floor is designed as a maternity
and child welfare centre and the layout is somewhat similar to that of
the ground floor with the addition of a sun flat where the children
can enjoy the open air while their mothers are attending mothercraft
classes. On the two upper floors are provided flats, five in number, for
certain of the City Council's officers. This new building, together with