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CHILD MINDERS
An Assistant Nursing Officer, appointed for the purpose, visits all applicants
for registrat ion as child minders and reports on their suitability, on the conditions
existing in the premises and on the measures necessary to comply with the Nurseries
and Child-Minders Regulation Act, as amended.
Since February 1969 women who applied for registration or who otherwise
came to the notice of the department numbered 358; of these 261 had cancelled
or withdrawn their applications for various reasons. Registrations effected numbered
11 and 10 were refused registration.
Further details will be found on page 92 of the Appendix.
CLINIC CENTRES
There are 6 clinic centres in the borough. 3 school treatment centres and 7
combined clinic and school treatment centres. Additional clinic auxiliaries were
engaged during the year to carry out various tasks in the clinic centres thereby
affording more time to the health visiting and nursing staffs to cope with their
professional duties.
Further housing development on the western side of the Isle of Dogs necessitated
additional clinic sessions at the Island Baths sub-clinic.
Services provided at each of the Centres are given on pages 129 to 131 of the
Appendix.
CRECHES
Children can be placed in creches for an afternoon at eight of the clinic
centres by mothers who wish to attend the mothers' club or sewing class at the
centre or who have hospital appointments. Creches also provide facilities for
mothers to be relieved of their children for 2 or 3 hours during the day, and
provide an opportunity for an only child to associate with other children of the
same age.
No charge is made where the mother is attending a centre activity, but a
charge of l/9d. per session is made if the mother wishes to leave her child there
whilst she attends to shopping or other domestic duties.
Attendances numbered 7,362 during the year.
DAY NURSERIES AND PLAYGROUPS
There are four non-residential day nurseries in the borough operated by
the Council, providing places for a maximum of 210 children under 5 years of
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