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The staff consists of a matron, nurse, cook-general, cleaner,
and three probationers.
The matron and the three probationers live and sleep in the
building.
The total attendances of babies and toddlers in 1937 numbered
5,701 as compared with 5,605 in 1936 and 5,194 in 1935.
The charges are 9d. per head per day, or 6d. per day each
for more than one child of the same family. Special cases of hardship
are sympathetically considered by the Committee and last
year 32 children were admitted free.
The average daily attendance was 23.3 as compared with 21.9
in 1936.
The Nursery was closed from 26th August to 12th September
owing to measles and illness of the staff.
The milk supplied to the Day Nursery is of a special grade—
Tuberculin Tested.
The tenancy of the Nursery was renewed for a further period
of one year from the expiry of the existing lease (25th September,
1937).
The Council still have under consideration the provision of
up-to-date Nurseries both in the Clerkenwell and St. Luke's
districts. It is hoped that provision for the former will be made
in Granville Square.
Nursery School Teacher.
I submitted a Report last year on the provision of a Nursery
School Teacher (part time), but the matter was deferred pending
the erection of a new Day Nursery.
Home Nursing Service.
The Borough Council pays £275 a year to the Metropolitan
Nursing Association for nursing Finsbury residents in their homes,
maternity cases, confinements and their complications, and for the
nursing of the illnesses of children and infants.
The full service applies also to the home nursing of cases of
measles, whooping cough, diarrhoea, pneumonia, influenza and
tuberculosis. The cases are referred to the Metropolitan Nursing
Association, 31, Bedford Place, Bloomsbury Square, W.C.I (Telephone
No. Museum 0352), from the Public Health Department,
and are invariably attended to without delay. This work has
always been extremely well done.