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Supply of Food to Mothers, and Children under School Age.—Reference is
made on page 69 to the supply of milk for mothers and children.
In January, 1920, the Council made a grant of £50 to the Kentish Town Dining Room
for Mothers, then housed at Lyndhurst Hall, Warden Road. Here nursing mothers and
young children were supplied with cheap dinners. The work was interrupted in the latter
part of the year, but was started again by a new committee early in 1921.
Meals for mothers and children are also supplied by the St. Pancras School for Mothers
(see page 18), and for ailing mothers and children, amongst other sick persons, by the Invalid
Kitchen, Crowndale Road.
Home for Ailing Children under School Age.—A grant of £500 per annum is
made by the Council in aid of the Mayoress of St. Pancras Home for Sick Poor Children,
1, St. Alban's Road, N.W. 5, which has accommodation for 18 ailinsr children.

The conditions for which the children were admitted were as follows:—
Debility 25
Rickets 17
Other nutritional disorders, tardy development, &c. 19
Convalescence after
Measles 14
Pneumonia and Bronchitis 15
Whooping Cough 5
Other conditions 13
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The Home was open on 309 days during the year, and the average length of stay of
the patients 40.88 days. A good deal of trouble was experienced owing to children being
admitted in the incubation stage of infectious disease, and the Homo was closed in March on
account of whooping cough, in April because of measles, and in October for scarlet fever.
Day Nurseries.—In pursuance of resolutions passed in December, 1919, as amended
later, the Council assists the four approved day nurseries in the Borough by the payment of
one quarter of the net expenditure as approved by the Ministry of Health (after the deduction
of the payments made by the mothers). The effect of this is that the expense is shared as to
one half by the Ministry, one quarter by the Council, and one quarter by voluntary funds.
The four institutions are the Whitfield Day Nursery, 53, Whitfield Street, W. 1; the St.
Pancras Day Nursery, 26, Cartwright Gardens, W.C. 1; the Kentish Town Day Nursery,
Gospel Oak Grove, N.W. 5; and the Margaret Day Nursery, 44, Ampthill Square, N.W. 1.

* From 1st April, 1920, to 11th June, 1921.