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and foster-children on the register at the end of the year were 7
and 7 respectively.
Day Nursery.
Evacuated to Maplestead on September 4th, 1939, and transferred
to St. Margarets, Ware, early in February, 1940.
Attendances during 1939 were 6,297 (while in Wood Green
3,596, when evacuated 2,701), compared with 6,284 in 1938.
On the outbreak of war the Day Nursery was evacuated to
Maplestead, near Halstead, Essex, where it was carried on as a
Residential Nursery. All the children attending the Day Nursery
were evacuated along with the whole Nursing Staff, so that there
was complete continuity of care and management. The children
were comfortably housed and well cared for in their new premises,
but as the premises were considered rather dangerous in the event
of fire occurring, it was considered advisable to move them to
other quarters at St. Margarets, Ware, and this was done early in
1940.
The attendances of children at the Day Nursery from January
1st up to the removal on September 4th numbered 6,297.
SANITARY INSPECTION OF THE AREA.
The following table gives a very brief summary of the dayto-day
work of the Sanitary Inspectors. The number of inspections
made and to a less extent the actual number of improvements effected
is considerably less than in a normal year. This was due in the
first instance to the loss of an inspector in the first half of the year
by the sudden death of Mr. Stanbury and in the second to the fact
that the inspectors in common with most of the other members of
the Health Department had to devote a very large part of their
time and effort to civil defence duties.