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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
Day Nurseries.
The addresses of the four day nurseries in the Borough are as
follows:—
Putney Putney Creche, 95, Lacy Road.
Tooting Fairlight Hall Day Nursery,
Fairlight Road.
Wandsworth Wandsworth Day Nursery and
Training School, 14, Garratt Lane.
Balham Balham Day Nursery, 22, Old
Devonshire Road.
The day nurseries are voluntary institutions subsidised by
Exchequer and Borough Council grants. Children are admitted
whose mothers are obliged to go out to work, or who are ill, or who
for any other reasonable cause are unable to look after their children.
The parents' payments vary from 6d. to 1s. per day for one child, a
reduction being made when more than one child from the same
family is admitted, or when a child is admitted for half a day only.
The Putney, Wandsworth and Balham Day Nurseries are also
training schools for nurses who intend to take up creche work.
They are admitted as probationers and remain for about a year,
receiving practical and theoretical training. The matrons give
courses of lectures, which the probationers are bound to attend,
and an examination is held at the end of the course.
117 inspections of the creches were made during the year by
the Health Visitors.
The attendances were Putney, 5,899; Balham, 8,798;
Tooting, 4,894; and Wandsworth, 7,126; a total of 26,717, an
increase of 4,732 compared with 1922.
Wandsworth Borough Memorial Maternity Home.
This Home, formerly a private residence, is situated in Glenburnie
Road, off Beechcroft Road, Upper Tooting, and it was opened
as a Maternity Home on the 4th November, 1920.
The house is a large one standing in fairly extensive grounds,
and the accommodation consists of 23 beds, including one isolation
bed. There is a laundry attached to the Home.