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well, but by simple advice about feeding and other matters
are rapidly converted into healthy sturdy babies. Others
who are healthy are undoubtedly kept in health as a result
of the advice given.
Above all, I consider that these Clinics are acting as
educational centres and that the effect of their teaching will
in time spread far beyond the individual mothers and children
who attend.
DAY NURSERIES.
These institutions perform a useful function in providing
a place where young children can be left under proper care
by mothers who for one reason or another are obliged to go
out to work.
The Burgess Day Nursery is selt-suporting, its income
being derived from endowment.
The West Hendon Day Nursery receives a grant of £300
per annum from the Hendon Urban District Council. A
charge of 1/- per head per day is made but this in some cases
is reduced to 8d. The remainder of the necessary income is
provided partly by voluntary contribution and partly by a
grant from the Ministry of Health.
HOSPITALS PROVIDED OR SUBSIDISED BY THE
LOCAL AUTHORITY OR BY THE
COUNTY COUNCIL.
(1) Tuberculosis.
Treatment of Tuberculosis is in the hands of the
Middlesex County Council who now possess a County
Sanatorium at Harefield. Patients are also sent to Clare
Hall Sanatorium, South Mimms, and to various other
hospitals and Sanatoria under County Council
arrangements.
(2) Maternity.
There is no maternity hospital in the district.
(Patients are frequently admitted to Queen Charlotte's
Lying-in Hospital in Marylebone, and to Cedar Lawn
Lying-in Home in Hampstead.)
(3) Children.
There is no children's Hospital in the district.
(Children are admitted to the Hendon Cottage Hospital
which is a purely voluntary hospital, and to the London
Children's Hospitals.)