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present demand. At the end of 1952 there were 161 daily guardians on
the register of whom 76 were minding 88 children. The number of
individual children minded during the year was 148 and they were in
the care of guardians for 18,876 days. These figures compare with 129
and 15,710 respectively for 1951. Health visitors undertake to approve
guardians for registration and are responsible for vigilance in seeing
that the scheme's safeguards are carried out.
Day Nurseries
The County Council's new policy on the admission of children to
day nurseries and the charges for admission, which came into operation
on the 1st December, had the effect of drastically reducing the numbers
on the registers and the daily attendances by the end of the year. The
following table shows the number of children on the registers at the end
of the year and the attendances during the year. Comparative totals
for 1951 are also shown.