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Nurseries and Child-minders Regulation Act, 1948.—This Act
requires, inter alia, that every local health authority shall keep registers—
(a) of premises in their area, other than premises wholly or mainly
used as private dwellings, where children are received to be looked
after for the day or a substantial part thereof or for any longer
period not exceeding six days;
(b) of persons in their area who for reward receive into their homes
children under the age of five to be looked after as aforesaid.

The reason for the removal from the register of the premises referred
to in (a) above was that the occupier no longer wished to receive children
therein to be looked after during the day.
Of the child-minders whose names were removed from the register
(see (b) above), one died, two returned their certificates of registration
as they no longer wished to act in that capacity and the last obtained
registration of her premises under the Act with a view to caring for a
larger number of children therein.
Clinic Premises.
Manford Way Health Services Clinic.—An application was received
from the Area Organiser of the Family Planning Association for permission
to use this clinic on the first and third Monday evenings in each month.
Approval was granted by the Health Area Sub-Committee, in accordance
with the County Council's policy, on the clear understanding that the
Association realised that by undertaking their functions in the premises they
were in no way acting as agents of the County Council, that all literature
published by the Association must clearly indicate that the services provided
were not part of the County Health Services and that a notice to the
effect that the use of the premises was upon and subject to the strict
observance of these conditions must be displayed in the clinic when their
session was being held.
This Association commenced using the Manford Way Clinic for their
sessions in September 1957 and a charge is made to them to cover the cost
of heating, lighting, cleaning and caretaking.
Health Services Clinics, Kenwood Gardens and Heathcote Avenue
(Couchmore Avenue area).—In May, 1958, the Minister of Health gave
approval to the erection of the Clinic in Kenwood Gardens on the land
already acquired by the County Council, which is part of the site reserved
for a health centre, he authorised that tenders be invited and intimated
that he would be prepared to recommend loan sanction when the actual
cost of the scheme based on tenders was known.
With regard to the Clinic in Heathcote Avenue, which it is proposed
should be erected on a piece of land to be purchased from the Borough