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coming within the Maternity and Child Welfare and School Medical
schemes. The new Health Centre, which is to serve the needs
of the Greenford Ward, is in course of construction and should be
available during the current year.
Day Nursery.—In view of the small numbers of children
seeking admission to the Day Nursery and the high relative cost
of each child per day, the Maternity and Child Welfare Committee
called for a report on the subject. The report submitted was as
follows:—
REPORT TO THE MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE
COMMITTEE.
Day Nursery.
I beg to submit, as requested, a report on the attendances at, and
the cost of, the Day Nursery.
The Day Nursery was opened by the Hanwell Urban District Council
during the period of the Great War and was taken over by the Ealing
Town Council when the Hanwell District was included within the Borough
on the 1st October, 1926.
Since the war, as one would expect, the use made of the Day Nursery
has declined and during the last six months, March to September, the
number of children in attendance has averaged twelve a day, whereas
the accommodation is from 20 to 24 children.