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The Women's Country Holiday Fund.
This body continued their welcome and useful work amongst
the mothers who attended at the Council's Maternity Centres,
enabling many tired-out mothers to obtain a stay by the sea in
comfortable surroundings, and a respite from the trying cares of a
noisy and crowded home. The Council makes an annual grant to
the Fund based on the expenditure incurred in sending away for
holidays mothers with young babies. Subject to the consent of the
Ministry of Health it was decided to make a grant of £10 for these
services.
The Day Nursery.
The Municipal Day Nursery is situated in 42, Lloyd-Baker
Street, and provides accommodation for 18 toddlers and 12 babies.
In the summer a maximum of 35 are admitted, as the toddlers can
then live all day in the open space provided in Granville Square.
The total attendances of babies and toddlers in 1938 numbered
7,282 as compared with 5,701 in 1937 and 5,605 in 1936.
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 there were 843 free attendances.
The average daily attendance was 28.4 as compared with 23.3
in 1937.
The milk supplied to the Day Nursery is of a special gradeTuberculin
Tested.
The tenancy of the Nursery was renewed for a further period
of one year from the expiry of the existing lease (25th September,
1938).
The Council still have under consideration the provision of an
up-to-date Nursery.
Home Nursing Service.
The Borough Council pays £275 a year to the Metropolitan
Nursing Association for nursing Finsbury residents in their homes,