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Maternity and Child Welfare. 57
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.
157 inspections of the creches were made during the year
by the Health Visitors.
The attendances were:—Putney, 4,807; Balham, 4,932;
Tooting, 4,571; and Wandsworth, 4,517; a total of 18,827,
compared with 20,827 in 1925.
Institutions for Expectant and Nursing Mothers and
Young Children.
The Streatham Babies' Hospital, 39, Riggindale Road, is
for the treatment of infants up to the age of five years. There
are 18 cots, and the nursing staff consists of Matron, a Sister,