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during the year approximately 30% stayed in the nurseries for up to one month;
50% for periods under one year, and 20% over one year.
The constant change-over of children adds to the strains of day nursery
work associated with the settling-in of so many children.
Staff absences, due to sickness lowers the actual ratio of staff to
children to what must be considered a dangerously low level so that in practice
students or an inadequate number of staff may at times be left to supervise
a considerable number of children. Students are away from the nurseries at
the technical college on two days of each week for their theoretical training,
and when they return, their practical training is reduced to a minimum.
There is unlikely to be proper supervision of students or children in such
circumstances and the amount of absenteeism may produce overstrain resulting
from inadequate staffing in our day nurseries.
The remedy may be either to consider students as supernumerary or
that the nurseries be given a higher proportion of trained nursery nurses for
the 0-2 age group.
Student nursery nurse training and examination arrangements have
been revised by the National Nursery Examination Board and in connection
with this, nursery matrons were invited to attend a meeting at the Tottenham
Technical College in January for a full discussion of the necessary modifications.

Distribution of Welfare Foods
The arrangements for issuing welfare foods were substantially the
same as in the previous year.