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72 Report of the Medical Officer of Health for 1936.
Putney Putney Creche, 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 lip creche 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, 5,425;
Balham, 6,682; and Wandsworth, 6,822; a total of 18,929
compared with 19,357 in 1935.
48 inspections of the creches were made during the year by
the Health Visitors.
Institutions for Expectant and Nursing Mothers and
Young Children.
The Council pays an annual grant to the Streatham Babies'
Hospital, 9, Leigham Court Road, which is a small hospital containing
20 cots for the treatment of infants up to the age of five
years. The staff consists of a Matron, one Sister, two Assistant
Nurses and three Probationers. A Visiting Medical Officer attends