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the purposes of Day Nurseries and Infant Welfare Centres where
such sites or buildings were desired by the Borough Council concerned,
the equipping, managing, staffing, etc., of such Day Nurseries being
carried out by the Borough Council. In these circumstances the
County Council was approached with a view to ascertaining whether
they would be willing to allocate a portion of one of the new buildings
to be erected at Kilburn Vale for the purposes of a Day Nursery, and
it is satisfactory to record that great assistance has been received from
them in connection with the matter. Tentative proposals were submitted
by the County Council providing for a portion of the ground
floor of the blocks of flats to be erected on the Kilburn Vale site to be
used for the purpose, including living accommodation for residential
staff; the accommodation proposed to be allocated having a southern
aspect, it being also proposed that a portion of the open space adjoining
should be allocated as a play space for the Nursery. These proposals
provided accommodation for approximately 40 infants and nurses'
quarters, and it was suggested by the County Council that the Borough
Council should take a lease for 40 years.
It is contemplated that the Staff needed would include a matron,
a sister, one staff nurse, three probationers, a cook and a general
domestic, and the Scheme provided for living accommodation for all
except the cook and a general domestic, such accommodation being
provided in the same block of buildings as that in which the proposed
Day Nursery would be situated.
At its meeting on the 27th January, 1938, the Council approved
the proposals in principle and asked the County Council to proceed
therewith and to submit actual figures in due course, subject to ultimate
agreement, in particular as to the terms upon which the lease may be
renewed, as to the use by the Council of the accommodation for other
purposes, and to any necessary sanction of the Ministry of Health.
Midwifery and Maternity Services.
Midwifery and Maternity Nursing in the Home.
For the expectant mother who w ishes to have her confinement at
home, a scheme has been approved by the London County Council
under which a midwife can be engaged (i) to act as a midwife, who