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A new feature of the Council's Maternity and Child Welfare
vScheme brought into operation at the end of the year, was the
provision of convalescent treatment for nursing mothers and for
children under five years of age.
New Health Centres.—As mentioned on a previous page, two
new Health Centres were brought into use during the year.
The Greenford Green Centre, situated in Wadliam Gardens,
has been built to serve the needs of the rapidly growing area
of North Greenford and Wood End. The building has a modern
exterior. The external bricks are hand-made sand-faced and the
front elevation has Portland stone dressings. The roof is covered
with hand-made sand-faced tiles.
The plan of the building is U-shaped and is all on one floor,
the entrance hall, visitors cloakrooms and clerks' rooms being
at the front, the school medical department occupying the west
wing and the maternity and child welfare department the east
wing. A closed corridor runs along the inside of each wing.
The maternity and child welfare department consists of one
large waiting room, 30ft. x 16ft., a weighing room, 18ft. x 16ft.,
with two undressing cubicles, and a medical officer's room, 15ft. x
16ft., staff cloakroom, and a cleaner's storeroom. The school
medical department consists of a medical officer's room, 12ft. x
16ft., a waiting room, 18ft. x 16ft., a minor ailment treatment
room, 12ft. x 16ft., a dentist's room, 12ft. x 16ft., and a dental
recovery room, 9ft. x 16ft., with at the end a staff cloakroom,
a bathroom and a storeroom.
All the interior walls are oil painted in primrose colour with
a brown dado in each of the two waiting rooms. The whole of
the floors, with the exception of the lavatories in which the floors
and walls are in terrazzo, are laid with polished oak blocks. The
cornices are all simple and rounded and every effort has been
made to avoid corners and so to facilitate cleanliness. Balanced,
metal windows have been installed and through ventilation is
provided by the introduction of clerestory-windows over the
corridors.