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(7) That the attention of the Committee of the Council concerned with the
development of the site adjoining the Town Hall be directed to the
necessity of having in mind the needs of the Public Health Committee in
relation to maternity and child welfare and tuberculosis.
(8) That in preparing the estimates for the next year adequate provision be
made for the carrying on of the maternity and child welfare activities
handed over by the St. Marylebone Health Society and for any developments
that may result from the operations of the Maternity and Child
Welfare Committee, including the payment of fees to clinic medical
officers (approximately 9 sessions per week at £1 11s. 6d. per session),
the payment of the salary of a full-time maternity and child welfare
medical officer at a commencing salary of £800 per annum, the payment
of the salary of part-time health visitors (£286 per annum), payment of
rent of premises used as clinics (£171 plus rates £26), payment of wages
of caretakers, cleaners, etc. (£141 14s. Od. per annum plus £40 per
annum in respect of dental clinic). The question of whether or not
provision may have to be made to meet commitments of the Health
Society or for fittings, appliances, etc., to be taken over or for additional
capital expenditure in connection with the erection of a North Marylebone
centre may have to be considered later."
"Having considered the report of recommendations set out, the Public Health
Committee, in turn, reported to the Council as follows:—
"Having given the matter most careful consideration, we generally approved
the proposals of the Medical Officer of Health and authorised him to proceed
accordingly, subject to the following observations and modification, namely: —
(i) Temporary staff.—The medical and other assistants and workers retained
after the 1st April, 1935, are to be employed on a purely temporary basis at the
same fees or rates of remuneration as were paid by the Health Society, and are
to be subject to notice at any time not exceeding one month.
(ii) Proposed Assistant Medical Officer of Health for Maternity and Child
Welfare and other purposes.—We are conferring hereon with the General Purposes
Committee with a view of their submitting appropriate recommendations to the
Council relative to the appointment of a whole-time maternity and child welfare
officer, see paragraph 4 (ii) of the concurrent report of the General Purposes
Committee). We would mention, however, that included in the annual grant of
£1,527, which has hitherto been paid to the Health Society in respect of the
welfare clinics, has been a sum of approximately £1,000 towards the cost of the
medical services, etc.
(iii) Utilisation of Site of No. 27, Grove Road.—We have requested Sir
Edwin Cooper, A.R.A., to advise and report as to the possibility of erecting
on the site of No. 27, Grove Road, a maternity and child welfare centre for North
Marylebone, and also a new disinfecting and cleansing station which is very much
needed; and have authorised the Medical Officer of Health to confer with him
accordingly.
(iv) South Marylebone Centre.—We propose to draw the attention of the
General Purposes Committee to the needs of the Maternity and Child Welfare and
Tuberculosis services in connection with the development of the site adjoining the
Town Hall.
(v) Financial Position.—The Council at the last Meeting decided that a sum
of £1,000 should be included in the Annual Estimates for 1935-36 to meet
expenditure of a revenue or capital nature in consequence of the re-allocation
of the Maternity and Child Welfare services; and it will be observed from the
consolidated Estimates of Expenditure which are circulated as a separate document
that, apart from the amount already approved, it is anticipated that other additional
expenditure in consequence of the change over will be comparatively small for
the ensuing financial year owing to the proposal not to continue to make to the
Health Society the grant of £1,527, which has hitherto been paid yearly to