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E. Given-Wilson Institute Centre, Pelly Bridge.
This is a small Centre, having one session only per week, at
which one of the Municipal Health Visitors is present to weigh
the babies and assist the doctor (Dr. Eva Morton). This session
is held on Monday afternoons at 2 p.m., and a doctor is present at
every session. No antenatal work is done.
Food and Drugs sold at the Centre include dried milk preparations,
cod liver oil preparations, etc.
Health Talks. Talks are given to the mothers on alternate
Tuesdays, at 3 p.m., by a trained nurse and midwife.
No Sewing Class is held.
Home Visiting from the Voluntary Centres. An arrangement
has been made whereby those women who were
attended at confinement by P.M.C. midwives are visited
as a routine by nurses attached to the Home until the children
reach school age. Home visiting is done by the Nurses or Superintendents
from Lees Hall Centre, Stratford Day Nursery, and
Trinity Mission Centres to weakly and ailing infants and children
attending the Centre. These children are visited, in addition, by
the Municipal Health Visitors in the course of their ordinary routine
work.
Each voluntary centre is visited once a week by a Municipal
Health Visitor in order that the Maternity and Child Welfare Department
may be kept in touch with the advice given to the
mothers attending the Centres with their children. The reports of
medical examinations and advice given at the Centre is passed on
to the Health Visitor of the district in which the child lives.
New Clinics.
Taking into consideration the areas served by the two existing
Municipal Centres and by the seven Voluntary Clinics, the
Maternity and Child Welfare Committee decided that there were
several districts of the Borough inaccessible to the existing Clinics,
and therefore out of touch with the facilities offered by these Centres.
Accordingly, schemes were proceeded with to provide this
service for mothers and young children in every area of the
Borough. As a result, the first permanent Municipal Welfare
Centre was opened by the Minister of Health on the 30th October,
1930. This Centre is situated in Grange Road, in the centre of
the Council's Housing Estate. It serves a large population, who
already appreciate the work done at the Clinic, which is open on
several sessions weekly for antenatal, infant welfare, and dental
treatment. Two other permanent Welfare Centres have recently
been opened. One centre is erected in Forest Street,
Forest Gate, where it will prove of immense value to those
mothers living in that district hitherto unserved by any existing
Clinic by reason of inaccessibility. The third Clinic has been
erected by the Council on the new Housing Estate in Maybury
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