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DAY NURSERIES.
The three Nurseries. Middleton Road, Manor House and
High Path were in full operation from the beginning of the
year.
In addition, the new Nursery in Morden Road on the site
bounded by Kenley Road and Morden Road, was completed
and arrangements were made to open it on Monday, the J 9th
June. Unfortunately on the previous night a flybomb fell in
Morden Hall grounds just 011 the side of the river remote
from Morden 1 lull itself, and damaged the Nursery extensively.
As at that time the number of dwellings being knocked out
and rendered uninhabitable was gaining on the capacity to
render, first aid repairs to provide some sort of dwelling for
the homeless, it was decided that labour and materials could
not be diverted to repair the Day Nursery at such a time, so
that the career of the new Morden Hall Nursery was ended
before it had even begun.
At the same time, the Nursery to be built on the site at
Camborne Road, acquired and reserved for a Clinic before the
war, had reached the plan completion stage. The Ministry,
however, decided in view of the new circumstances that any
idea of going on with the building must be abandoned.

With the frequent necessity to repair to the shelter on
the receipt of the warning siren, carrying out toilet arrangements
for babies in the shelters was something of a nightmare,
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