Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Willesden]
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Table 74 Day Nurseries: Priorities
Nursery | Unsupported Mothers | Medical reasons | Bad Housing | Total on Register | Priorities as percentage of total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Chichester Road | 31 | 8 | 15 | 54 | 100 |
Crest Road | 15 | 9 | 14 | 40 | 95 |
Essex Road | 31 | 15 | 12 | 58 | 100 |
Evelield | 18 | 7 | 4 | 29 | 100 |
Gladstone Park | 10 | 16 | 17 | 45 | 95 |
Longstone Avenue | 15 | 7 | 13 | 35 | 100 |
Mortimer Road | 16 | 14 | 10 | 43 | 93 |
Villiers Road | 19 | 13 | 11 | 43 | 100 |
Wesley Road | 10 | 10 | 9 | 29 | 100 |
Totals | 165 | 99 | 105 | 376 | 98 |
Table 75 Day Nurseries:
Arrangements made by parents of children unable to afford fee after increase in maximum charge. | |
---|---|
Mothers gave up work | 12 |
Children cared for by private minders | 17 |
Mothers doing homework | 1 |
Child attending nursery school, private schools and private nurseries | 5 |
Arrangements unknown | 9 |
Total | 44 |
Table 76 Day Nurseries: Assessments
Assessment | October, 1956 |
---|---|
Nil up to 4/- | 250 |
4/3 up to 8/9 | 75 |
9/- up to 13/- | 51 |
Total | 376 |
Table 77
Day Nurseries: Infectious Diseases Number of cases
Nursery | Measles | Scarlet Fever | Chicken Pox | Dysentery | Mumps | German Measles | Whooping Cough |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Chichester Road | — | — | — | 14 | 4 | 11 | 1 |
Crest Road | — | — | — | — | — | 6 | — |
Essex Road | 1 | — | — | 2 | — | — | — |
Evefield | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | 2 |
Gladstone Park | 1 | 1 | — | 22 | — | 9 | 1 |
Longstone Avenue | — | — | — | — | — | — | 6 |
Mortimer Road | 21 | — | 1 | — | — | — | — |
Villiers Road | 9 | — | — | — | — | 2 | — |
Wesley Road | — | — | 1 | — | 1 | — | — |
Totals | 32 | 1 | 3 | 38 | 5 | 28 | 10 |