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Child Life Protection.
The supervision of foster mothers and foster children is carried
out by a qualified health visitor specially appointed by he Council
for these duties. Every applicant for registration as a foster mother
is required to satisfy a standard of suitability before approval,
special attention being given to such matters as her state of health,
freedom from onerous personal ties, age, temperament, domestic
circumstances, cleanliness and comfort of the home, age and sex
of the other members of the household, and sleeping arrangements.
At the end of the year the number of persons on the register receiving
children for reward was 165, and the number of individual children
in their care was 178.

There are 116 foster children on the register under school age
and of these 97 came under medical supervision at the Infant
Welfare Centres in the Borough.
During the year two foster children died, and in one case the
death was the subject of a Coroner's inquest. The foster mother
in each instance was deemed to be free from blame.
Institutional Provision for Unmarried Mothers.
The Council continued their annual contribution to the Southwark
Diocesan Association for Preventive and Rescue work towards
the cost of the maintenance of unmarried Camberwell girls in
approved homes.
Open-Air Day Nurseries in Parks and Open Spaces.
The Metropolitan Boroughs' Standing Joint Committee referred
for consideration the question as to the likelihood of the Metropolitan
Borough Councils making use of the facility, if power were obtained,
of the L.C.C. Open Spaces for open-air day nursery purposes. It
was stated that in view of the success which followed the use of the