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room is on the ground floor. The other case was a nurse on the
staff who was found to be a carrier of the diphtheria bacillus. The
premises have been inspected by a sanitary inspector of the Finsburv
Borough Council, and with the exception of one small rainwater
pipe defect, were found in good repair.
The equipment of the nursery was found to be adequate, consisting
of stretcher beds, cots, blankets, mackintoshes, sheets,
towels, face flannels, combs, tooth-brushes, sponges, mugs, plates,
chairs, tables, ear syringes, wool, boracic powder, zinc ointment,
boracic ointment and white precipitate ointment, syrup of figs,
castor oil, clinical thermometers, lysol, carbolic acid, and dried
milks.
The daily routine commences at 7 a.m., when the nursery is
aired, prepared and warmed. At 8 a.m. children commence to
arrive. Their own clothes are removed and put in numbered
pigeon-holes. The children are given a warm bath and put into
creche clothes. In the case of babies the same routine applies, but
in addition, their eyes and noses are bathed with boracic lotion,
and their heads are combed. The babies' bottles are got ready,
and they are fed at 8.45 a.m. The toddlers are given hot milk
at 9.15 a.m., and dinner at 11.30 a.m. At 12.30 p.m. they are put
to bed on cots and stretcher beds in the toddlers' room to sleep
until 2.30 p.m. They play games until 3.30 p.m., when they have
tea. At 4 p.m. they are changed back into their own clothes and
are taken home between 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. The rooms are thoroughly
cleansed and left in order for the next day. The same
routine applies to the babies, except that the feeds are at
12.15 p.m. and 3.30 p.m. and the babies are allowed to sleep
between feeds.
Children are only accepted from mothers at work at a charge
of 9d. per day for one child and 1s. per day for two children. In
the event of a child's illness, the mother is sent for at her working
address, and asked to take the child to its own doctor or to a
hospital. The children are weighed —toddlers once a fortnight,
babies once a week. When it is possible for mothers to come in
at midday, it is arranged for them to breast-feed their own babies.