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Nursery, in Beadnell Road. The value of this home may be
gauged by perusing the last annual report which shows the
number of attendances for the year 1907 amounted to 6,882.
The nursery opens daily from 7.45 a.m. to 8 p.m., and children
between the ages of one month and three years are received at
a charge of 4d. per day for each child, and 6d. per day for two
children from one family. The Committee in their report state
that at times during the year, children who were doing well
have been unavoidably kept from the nursery owing to the
inability of the parents, through lack of work, to find the
necessary fees. On the return of some of these children they
were found to be pale and thin for want of the good food so
necessary for their well-being and which they had previously
enjoyed.
A similar institution is situated at 28, Taunton Road, Lee,
where the total attendances for the year equalled 2,600.
I feel confident that the good work carried out by the
above-mentioned institutions has been of considerable help, not
only to young infants, but in educating mothers who have come
under their influence. The work has been carried out quietly.
In fact few know of their existence except those immediately
benefited, and it is with the hope that the organisers and workers
may receive public support, and that others may be encouraged
to establish similar institutions, that I have ventured to bring
this matter before you. We should be grateful for their help.
Infant Life Protection.—As I have pointed out in
previous reports there is need for the amendment of the existing
law governing persons who receive infants for the purpose of
nursing or maintaining them apart from their parents.
The Infant Life Protection Act of 1897 only applies to
persons receiving for hire or reward more than one infant under