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Division Premises Service Work involved
- Fulham Ambulance station,
Fulham.
Ambulance station
Extension for new petroleum
store and accommodation
for Civil Defence personnel.
- London H.Q. Ambulance Station.
Waterloo Road.
H.Q. of ambulance
service.
Conversion of fire station.
- Putney Ambulance Station,
West Hill, Wandsworth.
Accident ambulance
station.
Erection of new building.
- South West General Ambulance
Station, Lambeth.
Ambulance station
Extension to provide garage
and new offices
- West Smithheld Ambulance
Station.
Accident ambulance
station.
Extension of new building to
replace temporary structure.
Programme
for 1952-53

The acquisition and reservation of sites suitable for future building was continued,
and as opportunity arose better terms of tenancy were obtained for health service
premises which were likely to be required for long periods but were held on insecure
tenancies.
Maternity and child welfare premises
Closing of
day nurseries
Following a survey of the day nursery provision in the County it was decided
early in the year that while the total day nursery provision should remain substantially
at its existing level and every effort should be made to obtain the maximum beneficial
use of the accommodation, any indication of redundancy in the light of prescribed
priorities for admission was to be kept constantly under review and steps taken to
deal with it by closing or amalgamating nurseries. As a result of this policy the following
five nurseries were closed :—
Division 4—St. Anne's Day Nursery, Stoke Newington.—This nursery was in requisitioned
accommodation on the ground floor of a home for aged persons owned by the
Little Sisters of the Poor. The nursery was closed and de-requisitioned on 28th June.
Division 5—Nursery Creche, White Horse Road,, Stepney.—This nursery, in unsatisfactory
accommodation, was closed on 30th June as a result of a considerable
falling off in attendances and the Council's tenancy was terminated.
Division 6—Conley Street Day Nursery, Greenivich.—This was a prefabricated building
owned by the Ministry of Health, standing on requisitioned land near the Conley
Street Nursery School. The day nursery was closed on 31st March and the premises
were placed at the disposal of the Education Committee for use as a nursery school.
Division 9—Roehampton Day Nursery, Wandsworth.—This nursery in requisitioned
premises was closed on 18th May, and the accommodation was transferred to the
Education Committee for use as a nursery school.
Streatham Vale Day Nursery, Wandsworth.—A. prefabricated nursery building
on a requisitioned site, was closed on 28th September and the site was de-requisitioned.
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