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Provided that the Council shall not, except with the consent of the Minister
of Health, terminate or make any reduction in the annual contribution
payable to an association in respect of any service on the ground that
any of the foregoing conditions are not fulfilled of that service.
The following voluntary organizations receive the discontinued Ministry
grant subject to the conditions set forth above.
Shoreditch School for Mothers.
Amount payable in respect of discontinued grant, £755 1s. 6d. The
Committee of the School for Mothers administer the two following institutions
:—
School for Mothers, 28, Herbert Street.
For many years this institution has worked in close co-operation with
the Borough Council.
A district (No. 7) in the Western portion of the Borough in which this
Centre is centrally placed has been allocated to the two Health Visitors
employed.
Notification of births are sent weekly from the Town Hall, and the Health
Visitors are responsible for all visiting within this district. Two Infant
Welfare and one Ante-Natal Consultation, and a Sewing Class are held
weekly. Particulars of the visits made and attendances at the Centres in
the School for Mothers district will be found in the tables at the end of this
section of the report.
As a result of an inspection of the work of this Centre in January, 1931,
it was suggested that it would be more satisfactory if the Health Visitors
were to adopt the same form of record-keeping as that used by the Health
Visitors at the Town Hall. This suggestion was readily adopted and has
worked well.
The Borough Council has for some years made an annual grant of £200
in respect of the duties under the Maternity and Child Welfare Act delegated
to this Centre. This grant, is, of course, independent of the discontinued
Ministry grant now payable, through the Borough Council.
Brunswick Day Nursery, Brunswick Place.
This Nursery accommodates 40 children. The attendances during the
year were as follows : Whole days, 7,568; half-days, 707. The corresponding
figures for 1930 were : Whole days, 6,730; half days, 675.
Dr. Dancy is the doctor in charge. She visits the Nursery weekly and
in case of emergency a local practitioner is consulted.
The Staff consists of Matron (Miss Sharpen), Staff Nurse, and five Probationers.
The domestic staff, consisting of daily cleaner and laundry woman
on two days each week, is non-resident.