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Nursing Service, provision of Milk for Mothers and Children, &c., &c.,
full details of which will be found summarised in this chapter of
the Annual Report.
Maternity and Child Welfare Centres.
For administrative purposes the Borough is divided into six
areas and in each there is a Maternity and Child Welfare Centre
(with an attached Clinic), either Municipal or Voluntary. They
are situate as follows:—
1. Municipal.
(a) Latchmere Baths (Burns Road).
(b) All Saints Parish Hall (Prince of Wales Road).
(c) Plough Road Institution.
(d) Dental Centre and Clinic (Plough Road Institution).
2. Voluntary.
(a) Battersea School for Mothers (55 Mundella Road).
(b) Women's League of Service (111 Bridge Road West).
(c) Chislehurst Mission (St. James' Hall, Ponton Road,
Nine Elms).
In addition to the above, ancillary activities included in the
Scheme are: (l) St. Mary's Hostel (for unmarried mothers and
their children, Macaulay Road, Clapham Common, and (2) St.
Margaret's Day Creche and resident Hostel, 10 and 12 Cambridge
Road, both of which are under Voluntary control, but Jinked up
with the Maternity and Child Welfare Scheme and in receipt of
an annual grant from the Council.
Each of these Centres is under the superintendence of a trained
Health Visitor, and to each Centre is attached a Clinic at which a
Woman Medical Officer is in attendance. The Voluntary Centres
are managed on similar lines to those of the Municipal Centres.
An area is mapped out for each centre in which it is responsible
for home visiting and other incidental welfare work.
The work carried out at the various Municipal Infant Welfare
Centres during 1922, is summarised as follows:—