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The Work of the Welfare Centres.— These are eight in number and are now
all municipal. Infant welfare sessions are held at all of them and ante-natal sessions
are held at four, in three instances, twice weekly and in one instance once a month.
With the addition of the monthly ante-natal session at North Woolwich, at the end
of the year 6.25 ante-natal sessions and 21 infant consultation and weighing sessions
were being held each week.
In tabular form below are shown detailed statistics for 1933 and the consolidated
statistics for the previous year :—

Two important changes took place during the year:—(a) Consequent upon the
alterations at the North Woolwich Baths, a portion of the building became redundant
for the purposes of the Baths Committee and the Committee and the Council
resolved to alter it for the purposes of a maternity and child welfare centre. The
new building was opened on the 1st June. It consists of a large waiting and weighing
hall, a large consulting room and a commodious pram shed, and it replaces the
rooms which were used for so many years at St. John's Church Hall ; (b) As Plumstead
Centre had become too small for the work of the Maternity and Child Welfare
Committee and the School Treatment Committee, it was decided early in the year
to enlarge it, and the new Centre was opened in October. It now consists of a set
of rooms for maternity and child welfare purposes on the ground floor and a set of
rooms for school medical purposes and dental purposes on the upper floor.