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"For the premises at Salisbury Street the rent paid to the Portman Estate
is £80 per annum, exclusive of rates, which amount to £26 per annum, but the
Society receives from the London County Council towards the upkeep of the dental
and aural clinics a rent of £260 per annum. In respect of the minor ailments
treatment centre the Society receives from the Paddington and St. Marylebone
District Nursing Association £56 10s. 0d. per annum for the use of the premises.
For the use of the rooms, etc., at Hill Road an inclusive rent of £65 per annum is
paid."
"Of the remaining five centres, one is at Middlesex Hospital, one at the
St. Marylebone General Dispensary, 30 Marylebone Lane, one at Queen Charlotte's
Hospital, one at the Church Army Dispensary, Little Harcourt Street, and one at
the Western General Dispensary, Cosway Street. With none of these does the
Health Society have any particularly close relations. The institutions themselves
are responsible for staffing, though they receive financial assistance from the
Council, and at most of them the official health visitors attend in the capacity of
superintendent and otherwise. Though certain of them will cease to operate sooner
or later, the fact that the Health Society has ceased to function will not affect them
at all."
"Procedure at the Change Over—Immediate.—Indeed, as and when the
Health Society hands over to the Borough Council, the provision that will have to
be made immediately will be for carrying on the three centres first named—Salisbury
Street, Hill Road and 113, Marylebone Road. So far as premises are
concerned the only one that need give any trouble is Salisbury Street, and the time
it may continue to be used depends upon the Health Society. No doublt, however,
arrangements could be made for the Council to have the use of such rooms as
are necessary as tenants (or sub-tenants) of the Society, pending closure and
demolition."
"The Hill Road premises are the property of the Mansergh Woodall Club,
who, I am sure, would be quite pleased to continue to let the Council have the use
of the rooms for even more than two days each week as at present. This is
important, as later on, when Salisbury Street is closed and until other quarters have
been provided, it may be necessary to make more extended use of such quarters as
are available at 24, Hill Road."
"The letting of 113, Marylebone Road, being in the hands of the Council, no
difficulty need arise until the time for clearing the site and preparing it for, amongst
other things, a maternity and welfare centre and a tuberculosis dispensary."
"Intermediate and Future.—It is because two out of three of the premises in
which centres are now located are so very temporary, as well as because the Centre
at 30, Marylebone Lane is due to close down towards the end of the year and that
at Queen Charlotte's Hospital in a year or two, that the situation is so very difficult,
and there is necessity for making provision not only for the immediate present but
for the future as well."
"So far as the present is concerned I have already shown that the matter of
premises may be met by continuing to make use of those now provided. When
Salisbury Street is no longer available, what I suggest is that fuller use should be
made of Hill Road and 113, Marylebone Road until such time as other quarters are
found. Such new quarters should be in the form of two main centres in new and
specially constructed buildings, localised one in the area north of Marylebone Road
and equally easily accessible from Lissonia and St. John's Wood ; the other which
would serve the area south of Marylebone Road mainly would be located in the new
building on the site adjoining the Town Hall. The proposals connected with these
new provisions are more fully discussed later."
"Staffing—Temporary.—In the meantime the question of staffing of the temporary
centres calls for reference. The suggestion I have to offer is that for the
present the same staff as has been employed by the Health Society should be
allowed to operate, the Council making itself responsible for the payment of the
fees to the doctors and other helpers at the same rates as are paid by the Society.
The amount paid per month at present, I gather, is approximately £100, excluding