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submitted by Welfare Authorities after consultation with the Education Authority
and the Ministry of Labour.
The City Council, after consultation with the London County Council and the
Ministry of Labour, decided to continue the day nursery facilities for
Westminster mothers as follows
(a) No.l Bessborough Street, S.W.I. with accomodation increased from
50 places to 70 places.
(b) Nos. 37/39 3loc;mfiold Terrace, S.W.I. with accommodation for 59 children.
(c) The war-time day nursery at the Westminster Training College with
accomodation for 60 children had to be given up on the 31st March 1946
as the ewers required the return of the premise for educational
purposes. A thorough search for alternative premises in the area which
cr:uld be adapted for nursery Purposes having proved unsuccessful, the
Council decided, with the consent of the Ministry of Health, to erect a
hutted nursery with accommodation for 60 children on a bombed site in
Regency Street, S.W.I, tc. serve the needs of the area formerly serve; by the
closed nursery referred to.
Difficulties experienced in regard to the supply of materials and
the allocation of a starting date by the Minister of Works have delayed
the erection of this nursery but it i3 hoped that it will be completed
during 1947.
The City of Westminster Health Society, a voluntary organisation
performing maternity and child welfare services on behalf of the City Council
in the St. Margaret .and St. John hards, re-opened in May 1946 a part-time day
nursery for 30 children at their promises at 121 Marsham Street, S.W.l. The
City Council malting a grant of £1,04-0 towards the cot' of the nursery for the
financial year 1946/47.

Weekly clinics are also hold at Westminster Hospital, Charing Cross
Hospital, St. George's Hospital and the Generally Lying-in-Hospital, LaniL>etv
for mothers who have made rrangem.urts for their cenfinenonts in those hospitals.

The increasing demands on the Maternity and Child. Welfare services was
only to be expected from a marked increase in the birth rate.