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Maternity and Child Welfare. 71
No payment is made to a midwife where the patient
herself applied for admission to an Institution.
During the year assistance was granted to 63 midwives under
this scheme and compensation was paid in 10 cases. Assistance
towards payment of a suitable "Home Help" was made in 21
cases. The total cost of the service was £134 6s. 6d. 34 sterilized
maternity outfits were supplied.
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 Creche, 95, Lacy Road.
Wandsworth .. Wandsworth Day Nursery and
Training School, 16 Granville
Road.
Balham .. Balham Day Nursery,
22, Old Devonshire Road.
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 cr&che 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, 6,656
Balham, 7,895; and Wandsworth, 5,401, a total of 19,952
compared with 18,929 in 1936.