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Under section 101 (6) of the Local-Government Act, 1929, the Borough
Council made an annual contribution of £358 to the Chelsea Day Nursery
for the financial year 1933-34.
The attendances at the Nursery during the past two years were as
follows :—

The health of the children has been satisfactory.
Dr. J. H. Gibbens is Medical Officer to the Nursery and makes a
weekly inspection of the children.
(3)Chelsea Mothercraft Training Home.—Manor Street, S.W.3.
Chairman of Executive Committee : Mrs. C. M. Vaug~han-Morgan.
Hon. Secretary : Miss Violet Trench.
The Mothercraft Training Home is controlled by a Voluntary Committee.
The staff consists of three honorary Consultants, a Medical Director,
a Matron, two Sisters, three Staff Nurses and seventeen pupil nurses.
These latter are trained in accordance with the principles evolved by the
Mothercraft Training Society, Cromwell House, Highgate.
The Home is efficiently administered and the arrangements instituted
for the treatment of lactation cases have proved eminently satisfactory.
Three members of the Borough Council and the Medical Officer of
Health are members of the Executive Committee.
The following Table No. 29 shows the work carried out in the Home
during the past year :—