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74 Report of the Medical Officer of Health for 1938.
No payment is made to a midwife where the patient
herself applied for admission to an Institution.
During the year assistance was granted to 80 midwives under
this scheme and compensation was paid in five cases. Assistance
towards payment of a suitable "Home Help" was made in 58
cases. The total cost of the service was £175 8s. 0d. 32 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 Crèche, 95, Lacy Road.
Wandsworth Wandsworth Day Nursery and
Training School, 16, Granville
Road.
Balham Balham Day Nursery,
22, Old Devonshire Road.
In March, the Wandsworth Day Nursery was removed from
14, Garratt Lane to the address given above, as the former premises
were considered to be unsafe.
New premises for this Day Nursery are now under construction
on a site adjoining the Municipal Buildings and they are expected
to be ready for occupation in the near future.
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