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(d) The training of Students at the Nurseries for the Certificate of the
National Nursery Examination Board continued. Five Students (three from
the Ley Street Nursery and two from the Goodmayes Lane Nursery)
entered for the examination during the year, all of whom obtained the
Certificate.
The arrangements for young students to attend part-time courses (on
one day a week) at day continuation classes whilst awaiting enrolment
for the Nursery Nurses' Course at a Technical College in the September
following their sixteenth birthday also continued, thus enabling them to
pursue their studies in general subjects and so improve their general educational
standard during this pre-nursery course period. Only one student
(from the Goodmayes Lane Nursery) attended such a course at the St.
George's Day Release Centre, Dagenham, during 1958.
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.

Clinic Premises.
Manford Way Health Services Clinic.— The Family Planning Association
continued to use these clinic premises in 1958 for their sessions on the
first and third Monday evenings in each month, a charge being made to
them to cover the cost of heating, lighting, cleaning and caretaking.
Kenwood Gardens Health Services Clinic.— A tender of £22,360 for
building works and £185 for laying out the grounds was accepted in August.
1958, for the erection of this new clinic and building commenced the following
month; it is anticipated that it will be ready for occupation at the end
of thq year.
It is proposed to transfer to these new premises all the clinic services,
with the exception of the infant welfare centres, at present carried on at
Valentines Mansion and Newbury Hall. The infant welfare centre at
Newbury Hall will continue to be held there, to serve the mothers and
children living in that area, and negotiations are in progress to hire other
premises to which to transfer the Valentines Centre, i.e. to serve the northern
part of Cranbrook Ward and areas fringing on this.
The two rooms at present used for clinic purposes at Valentines Mansion
will thus be vacated and it is proposed to use these for additional office
accommodation which is so urgently required.
The services proposed to be provided at the new Clinic, with its
modern facilities, include infant welfare centre (to replace the present
Woodford Avenue Centre), ante-natal sessions, immunisation and vaccination,
routine and special examinations of school children, minor ailment
clinics, dental clinics and certain specialist clinics (orthopaedic, ear, nose
and throat, paediatric and opthalmic). There will also be greatly improved
facilities for health education,