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EMERGENCY OBSTETRIC MIT:
This service was called out twice during 1944. The patient in each case made
a good recovery.
PROVISION OF DENTURES FUR EXPECTANT AND NURSING MOTHERS:
The Borough Council approved a scheme commencing April 1st 1944 for assisting
expectant and nursing mothers to obtain dentures supplied through either the
North or the South Islington Welfare Centre or Eastman's Dental Clinic. The number
of mothers assisted through this scheme during 1944 was 17 at a total cost to the
Borough Council of £44. 10s. 1ds
INVALID CHILDREN'S AID ASSOCIATION:
A grant of £100 was paid to the Invalid Children's Aid Association for their
work for Islington children under 5 years of age during 1944.
NURSING IN THE HOME:
The Borough Council this year approved the payment of a grant of £200 per
annum to the North London District Nursing Association in respect of the nursing of
Islington children under 5 years of age in the home. The Borough Council also
contribute at the rate of 2/- per visit to necessitous cases of maternity complications
for which the services of a North London District Nurse are called in.
£17. 2s. 0d. was also paid by the Borough Council during 1944 to the
Association in respect of the nursing in the home of Public Health cases.
DAILY GUARDIAN. SERVICE:
The Daily Guardian Service, details of which have been set out in last year's
annual report, continued to provide for the care of a number of children of mothers
in work for whom accommodation could not be found in the Day Nurseries. At the end
of the year 74 Daily Guardians were on the register of women approved for this
Service and were caring for 115 children.
VOLUNTARY DAY NURSERIES:
The Council's grants to the Islington Voluntary Day Nurseries, evacuated to
the country, were as under:-
Lower Holloway Day Nursery £260
South Islington (pro Patria) D/N £300
WAR-TIME DAY NURSERIES:
A further Day Nursery was opened during 1944, i.e. at Vale House, Tufnell Park
Road, making a total of 14 Nurseries opened in the Borough and providing accommodation
for 810 children, premises for another Nursery at Highgate Hill were also
completed, but the opening of this Nursery was postponed. Two of the Nurseries were
badly damaged and rendered unusable by 'fly-bomb' raiding, one at Packington Street,
and the other at Liverpool Road. The damage was caused when the premises were
empty so that there was no loss of life in either case. But it reduced the number
of Nurseries available to 12, with a total accommodation for 727 children.
During the evacuation of children the Ministry of Health requested the
temporary reduction, if possible, of the number of Day Nurseries in the Metropolitan
area, and asked for the loan of staff and equipment thereby released for Reception
areas. A few members of the staff of the Islington Nurseries were temporarily
transferred to a residential nursery in Norwich to which also the equipment of the
Packington Street Nursery wa3 sent. It was under these arrangements of the
Ministry of Health that the opening of the Highgate Hill Nursery was postponed.
The Borough Council's War-time Day Nursery programme was completed during
the year, and the following is the list of the Nurseries that were provided:-
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