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1934 amounted to £235 6s. 8d., representing some 3,360 visits as compared
with 2,434 for the previous year. The larger number of visits indicates
that the nursing service which the Council provides is being taken
advantage of to an increasing extent.
Clinics and Treatment Centres.—There have been no additions to
the number of centres. These institutions 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. Maternity and Child Welfare Centre, 15, Bessborough Street,
S.W.I.
4. City of Westminster Health Society, 121, Marsham Street, S.W.I.
Proposed New Maternity and Child Welfare Centre and Day
Nursery.
For some years the Council has had under consideration the question
of the provision of a new maternity and child welfare centre to replace
the one at present housed in an old building at 15, Bessborough Street,
and enquiries have been proceeding as to possible sites, with the result
that a suitable site has now been selected in Bessborough Street.
In considering the type of building to be erected, the Council was
impressed with the fact that the day nursery accommodation in Westminster
was limited, and that the voluntary body (the City of Westminster
Day Nursery Committee) carrying on day nursery services at 147, Warwick
Street, were severely handicapped by the lack of accommodation
and the inconvenient lay-out of their present building. It was therefore
decided to instruct an architect to prepare sketch plans of a building
providing accommodation on the ground floor for a maternity and child
welfare centre, and day nursery accommodation on the upper floors,
together with an estimate of the cost. Such plans are at present under
consideration by the appropriate committee.
The preliminary lay-out comprises a maternity and child welfare
centre on the ground floor, day nursery accommodation on the first
floor divided into three large wards for different age groups of children;
with sun balconies. The second floor is also devoted to day nursery
purposes and includes small wards and nursing accommodation. The
third floor comprises three self-contained flats for the staff, and prams
and stores are housed in the basement. All the principal rooms have a
southerly aspect and access is provided direct from the balconies and ground
floor to a spacious garden in the rear.