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Fulham Day Nursery.—At this Institution,
which is supported by voluntary subscriptions,
children up to 5 years of age, whose mothers are
compelled to go out to work, are received for the
day, fed and well looked after at a small charge.
The average daily attendance is about 20. The cost
of the Institution is between £400 and £500 a year.
Fulham Invalid Childrens Aid Society.—By
this Society ailing and convalescent children
are sent to convalescent homes or boarded
out. Surgical instruments are supplied and general
supervision exercised over chronic cases referred to
the Society by Hospitals, etc. The expenditure of
the Society, exclusive of the contributions of the
parents, is about £550.
Fulham School Treatment Centre—
18 and 20, Bagley's Lane.—Under an arrangement
made with me acting on behalf of the Fulham
Medical Practitioners by the London County Council,
who pay the salaries of the doctors and nurses
and capitation fees in respect of the children treated,
school children are treated at the various departments,
viz., Dental, Throat and Nose, Eye, Ringworm
and Minor Ailments of the School Clinic held
at 18 and 20, Bagley's Lane. About 3,500 children
are treated yearly and the total expenditure is about
£1,000 a year.
Fulham Tuberculosis Dispensary.—
Although of course not dealing exclusively with
children, mention may also be made of the above, as
40 per cent, of the patients attending are children
under ten years of age. The scope of its work is,
however, so well known to the Committee that it is
only necessary for me to mention it.
Babies' Nursing Home.—I am also very
pleased to be able to state that it is proposed to
establish in Fulham a nursing home for sick children
under three years of age.