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The Council has also acquired premises in Elsdale Street and
Well Street in order to secure a site for a second new centre and
street improvements. The estimated value of the land to be used
for the welfare centre, including surveyors' fees, is £1,787 and the
cost of the building, excluding furniture and equipment, will be
£9,120.
This new centre will replace the present centre carried on at
Hampden Chapel, Lauriston Road, and will also provide full-time
maternity and child welfare service as compared with a half-day
infant welfare session and a half-day ante-natal session each week,
the extent of the services now available at Lauriston Road.
Negotiations are proceeding with a view to the building of a
centre at Brooksby's Walk to replace the present centre held at the
Grove Mission, Brooksby's Walk.
The present centre at St. Michael's Hall, Northwold Road, is
to be replaced by a maternity and child welfare centre to be erected
by the London County Council on the site of the Northwold Road
clearance area and leased to the Borough Council for a period of 40
years at a rental of £400 per annum. This centre has been planned
to provide sufficient accommodation for the purposes of a school
treatment centre in addition to that necessary for carrying on
ante-natal, infant welfare, dental treatment and artificial light
treatment sessions. The accommodation needed for the purposes
of the school treatment centre will be sub-leased to the County
Council.
It is hoped that by the end of 1937 all the municipal maternity
and child welfare centres in the Borough will be established in
suitable premises excellently equipped for the provision of full-time
service.