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Report of the Medical Officer of Health for 1935.
No payment is made to a midwife where the patient herself
applied for admission to an Institution.
During the year assistance was granted to 17 midwives under
this scheme and compensation was paid in five cases. The total
cost of the service was £28.
Day Nurseries.
There are three Day Nurseries in the Borough which are
voluntary institutions receiving grants from the Borough Council.
Their addresses are:—
Putney Putney Crèche, 95, Lacy Road.
Wandsworth .. Wandsworth Day Nursery and
Training School, 14, Garratt
Lane.
Balham Balham Day Nursery,
22, Old Devonshire Road.
The Tooting Day Nursery was closed on 31st March, 1934,
as it was decided that there was no justification for keeping it open
owing to the fall in the number of children attending.
The admissions of children to the Day Nurseries is limited to
those whose mothers are obliged to go out to work, who are ill
or who for any other reasonable cause are unable to look after
their children. The parents payments vary from 6d. to 9d. 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 Day Nurseries are also training schools for nurses intending
to take up crèche work who are admitted as probationers and
remain for about a year. Practical and theoretical instruction
is given by the matrons and the instruction includes courses of
lectures, which the probationers have to attend before they can
sit for the examination which is held at the end of the course.
The attendances at the Day Nurseries were:—Putney, 5,612;
Balham, 6,701; and Wandsworth, 7,044; a total of 19,357,
compared with 18,344 in 1934.
43 inspections of the crèches were made during the year by
the Health Visitors.