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Nursery schools and nursery classes
The nursery schools provided and aided by the Council now number twenty-two. Nursery
The medical oversight of the schools is carried out by Dr. E. M. McVail. schools
The nursery schools at the end of the year, 1938, were:—

One of the Council's medical officers is responsible for the medical work at
all the schools, except those marked with an asterisk in the above list, which provide
their own medical officer. School nurses visit daily all the schools, except that of
the Women's University Settlement, Blackfriars, where other arrangements of a
satisfactory character are made.
In addition to the schools named above, two nursery schools provided by the
Council under the three-year programme, 1935-38, have been erected in Kintore
Way, Bermondsey, and at Honor Oak, and these will be opened in the early months
of 1939.
The three-year programme, 1938-41, contains proposals for 4 new nursery
schools for children aged 2 to 5 years, and one school for children aged 2 to 7 years.
One school is to be provided in 1938-39, two in 1939-40 and two, including the
school for children aged 2 to 7 vears, in 1940-41.
Nursery
classes
The three-year programme 1935-38 provided for the establishment of experimental
" nursery classes " in connection with infants' departments.