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The Secretary of the Pro Patria Day Nursery
reports that the attendances are lower due partly to the
epidemics in the spring and the shortage of work in the
autumn. She also states "We have found during the
last few months so much poverty among the parents of
the children that is most distressing. Up to the present
time we have had no difficulty in getting in the payments,
l0d. a day for one child, but now in some cases
the charge has been lowered to meet the hardest ones."
Similar remarks apply to the Somerford Street Nursery.
Certain of the children attending the Somerford
Street Day Nursery also attend the Council's Welfare
Centre every week for light treatment and some are
sent away to country homes during the summer.
ORPHANS.
There is a branch of the National Children's Home
and Orphanage situated in Bonner Road.
MATERNITY.
Public.
The Borough Council has two Maternity Clinics,
one at Cornwall Road, and one at St. Matthew's
Institute, Hereford Street, at which a variety of work
for maternal welfare is carried on. The Council also
employs a midwife, who resides in the borough. (For
further particulars see the section of this report dealing
with Maternity and Child Welfare).
London County Council: There are 18 beds in