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Improved Accommodation
It was possible to transfer maternity and child welfare centres, as set out below,
to better premises during the year:—
Division 5.— The centre at Riverside Mansions was combined with the school treatment
centre at Pier Head, Stepney, on 28th December, 1949, after adaptations had
been carried out.
Division 7. (a) The centre previously held in cramped quarters in Shaftesbury
House Day Nursery was transferred on 31st August, 1949, to All Saint's Parish
Hall, S.E.26.
(b) On 10th October, 1949, a centre was opened in St. Barnabas Church Institute,
Townley Road, S.E.26, where better accommodation was available than in the
church premises which had previously been leased.
(c) In June, 1949, a centre in a church hall in Barforth Street was transferred
to 221, Consort Road, S.E.15. formerly a medical relief station belonging to the
Council, which was adapted for its new purpose.
Additional Maternity and Child Welfare Centre
Division 2. A maternity and child welfare centre in temporary buildings which were
erected under the supervision of a firm of private architects was opened on
22nd November, 1949. The building occupies a part of a large site which has been
acquired for a comprehensive health centre. The preliminary work involved in
acquiring the site and planning the building had been completed before the
"appointed day " and the Council continued the work initiated by the Hampstead
Metropolitan Borough Council.
Building Work in Progress
At the end of the year plans had been completed, and Ministry sanctions
obtained, where necessary, for the following schemes which were under construction
Division 1. Mulgrave Road Day Nursery, Fulham.— The site on which there was
a partially completed war-time day nursery, on which work had been suspended at
the end of the war, was purchased and construction resumed to bring the building
into use to enable a vicarage used as a day nursery to be relinquished. The Ministry
of Works prefabricated buildings on the site were purchased from the Government.
Division 2. Barrow Hill Road Housing Estate.— The St. Marylebone Metropolitan
Borough Council proceeded with the construction of a maternity and child welfare
centre which had been planned before the " appointed day " in a block of flats on
a housing estate. The accommodation will be leased by the borough council to the
Council.
Division 5. Whitechapel School Treatment Centre.— The work of converting vacant
accommodation in the Mary Hughes Centre, Underwood Road, Stepney, which
houses a day nursery and maternity and child welfare centre, into a school treatment
centre proceeded.
Bethnal Green School Treatment Centre.— The adaptation of former special school
buildings in Mowlem Street, Bethnal Green, into a school treatment centre was
begun.
Division 7. Downham Health Centre.— The rebuilding of the Downham Health
Centre, Lewisham, which had been destroyed by enemy action, had reached an
advanced stage by the end of the year. The centre will accommodate a maternity
and child welfare centre and a school treatment centre, both of which have functioned
in improvised accommodation since the destruction of the centre.
Flower House Maternity and Child Welfare Centre.— With the consent of the
Housing Committee two ground floor flats which were made inter-communicating