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their home clothes, as they wear the Nursery clothes all day; and there are cupboards
for coats and racks for shoes.
The 40 children of nursery school age pass through the toddlers' reception
rooms to the large nursery at the end of the building. There is a kitchenette with
a hatch from which their meals are served. On the floor above, the playroom, sleepingporch
and open-air playground are situated.
On this floor the staff quarters are also arranged. There is a sitting-room for
probationer nurses, a bed-sitting room for the Matron, bedrooms for two staff nurses
and the cook-housekeeper, bedrooms for six probationers, and two bathrooms.
The dining room also serves as a sitting-room for the staff nurses.
The kitchen for the Nursery is placed on the ground floor, and the Matron's
and Secretary's offices and linen room adjoin the entrance, which is in Whitehaven
Street. There is an indoor perambulator room, and two service lifts, electrically
operated, one from the kitchen, for the meals, and the other from the laundry in
the basement, for the linen. The central heating and the hot water are provided
by a boiler, operated by a patent mechanical stoker.
Pursuant to the provisions of the Maternity and Child Welfare Contributions
(London) Scheme, 1937, the Council make a grant at the rate of £546 per annum to
the Health Society in respect of the services provided at the Portman Day Nursery.
Incorporated in the new building are the Sieff Hall and the Christine Murrell
Memorial. The hall, which occupies the greater part of the ground floor, is licensed
for music and dancing and let to Clubs, or for social evenings, meetings, or such
activities as "Keep Fit" classes.
The Christine Murrell Memorial Unit was presented by friends and associates
of the late Dr. Christine Murrell, who established an Infant Consultation in Salisbury
Street 32 years ago. It is intended to carry on in the memorial unit medical work
of a remedial and preventive character.
Infectious Diseases.
Table 20 gives information regarding infectious disease notifications, and the
number of cases visited and for whom home nursing or hospital accommodation
was provided.

*Notifiable as from 1st October, 1938.