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Day Nursery.
The only Day Nursery in the Borough is the St. Margaret's
Day Nursery at 8 and 10 Cambridge Road, which since 1927 has
been incorporated with the National Society of Day Nurseries.
The Battersea Nursery continues, however, to be administered by
a local committee upon which the Borough Council is represented.
There is accommodation for about 24 children, and a guest house
is attached for the reception of residents.
No serious outbreak of infectious disease occurred during the
year among the children attending the Nursery, although a few
isolated cases were notified, for which the usual precautionary
measures were adopted.
During 1933 the attendances at the Nursery totalled 4,665.
The annual grant which is made by the Council in accordance
with the requirements of the Scheme made by the Ministry of
Health (vide page 21), and which, during the period 1930-33, was
at the rate of £555 per annum, was reduced under the revised scheme
to £500 per annum as from 1st April, 1933.
Ambulance Service.
The facilities which are afforded free of charge by the London
County Council for the conveyance by their ambulance service of
maternity cases of an urgent nature either by day or night, and for
non-urgent cases between the hours of 11 p.m. and 8 a.m., have been
made use of by patients attending the Maternity Hospital. The
extension of these facilities to the conveyance of non-urgent cases
between the hours of 8 a.m. and 11 p.m. (the Council undertaking
to pay the charges in such cases) which was referred to in the report
for 1931, was not required during 1933.
Hospital Provision.
In addition to the provision of Midwifery Services, Hospital
and District, the Council have provided facilities for the needs of
children requiring special hospital treatment by arrangement with
the Victoria Children's Hospital, Chelsea, and the St. Thomas's
Babies' Hospital (vide page 29). The Council contribute an annual
sum to these Hospitals in respect of the facilities afforded (vide
page 21). Women and children are referred where necessary
from the Ante-Natal and Child Welfare Centres to these or other
appropriate institutions.