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The Maternity and Child Welfare Committee have an arrangement with the
Nursery under which payment (9d. per day) is made for the admission of the children
of necessitous parents upon the recommendation of the health visitor.
Necessitousness under this scheme is determined by the application of the
"milk scale" (see Annual Report for 1933). In the case of parents whose income
falls within the half-price scale, the Council pays 4½d. per day to the Nursery and
the parent 4½d. Payments under this scheme amounted, during 1938, to £127 13s. 9d.
In addition a grant of £6 5s. Od. was made towards the cost of holidays for 10 children.
The numbers of children and attendances since the commencement of this arrangement
are shown in the following table:—

In order to ensure continuity of feeding of the bottle-fed babies attending the
Nursery, milk (wet or dry) is supplied by the Nursery to the mothers of these babies
for feeds at night and during week-ends.
The total number of whole-day attendances at this nursery during 1938 was
20,589, and of half-day attendances 625. The corresponding figures for 1937 were :
whole-day, 20,418; half-day, 987.
The resident staff of the Nursery consists of a matron, two nurses, fourteen
probationers, a day nursery teacher and a cook-housekeeper. The cleaning and
laundry staff are non-resident.
Incidence of infectious disease. The following cases occurred during the year:measles,
14; whooping cough, 11; chicken pox, 2.