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50 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.
97 inspections of the creches were made during the year by
the Health Visitors.
The attendances were:—Putney, 5,980; Balham, 5,980
footing, 4,275 ; and Wandsworth, 6,497; a total of 22,732, a
decrease of 3,985 compared with 1923.
Wandsworth Borough Memorial Maternity Home.
This Home is situated in Glenburnie Road, off Beechcroft
Road, Upper Tooting, and it was opened as a Maternity Home on
the 4th November, 1920.
The property, which belongs to the Council, was formerly
a private residence. The house is a large one and has an extensive