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In addition there were 4,070 visits paid where no reply was received.
On an afternoon in May, 1955, as in the previous year, arrangements
were made for the Health Visitors to meet the local General Practitioners
at the Town Hall, Ilford. with a view to increasing the degree of cooperation
between the Department and the Doctors.
Day Nurseries.
(a) The hours of opening at the three Nurseries during 1955 continued
to be 7.30 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday to Friday only.
(b) The standard charge for accommodation at the Day Nurseries continued
during 1955 to be 7/6 per child per day, with provision for this
charge to be reduced according to scale when the means of the parents do
not justify the full fee. The charge was. however, increased to 8/6 per
child per day as from the 2nd January, 1956.
The marked decrease in the daily attendances at the Nurseries noted
in the last two years has continued to be evident and accommodation has
continued to be made available to neighbouring Areas for children who
can more conveniently attend an Ilford Nursery than one in their own
Area, particularly those residing on the Hainault (L.C.C.) Estate.
(c) Sunshine House Nursery.—In view of the continuing low attendances
at the Nurseries, approval was given by the County Council to close
this Nursery on the 18th May, 1956, the children being transferred to the
remaining two Nurseries.
(d) Stevens Road Day Nursery.—As reported last year, the premises
occupied by this Day Nursery, until July, 1953, were transferred to the
Ilford Committee for Education, as from the 1st March, 1955, for use as
a Cerebral Palsy Unit which opened on the 2nd May, 1955.
(e) The training of Students at the Nurseries for the Certificate of the
National Nursery Examination Board continued. Seven Students (three
from the Ley Street Nursery, two from the Sunshine House Nursery and
two from the Goodmayes Lane Nursery) entered for the examination during
the year, six of whom obtained the Certificate.
The arrangements for young students to attend part-time courses (on
one day a week) at day continuation classes whilst awaiting enrolment
for the Nursery Nurses' Course at a Technical College in the September
following their sixteenth birthday also continued; this enables them to
pursue their studies in general subjects and so improve their general educational
standard during this pre-nursery course period. Two students (one
from the Ley Street Nursery and one from the Goodmayes Lane Nursery)
attended such a course at the St. George's Day Release Centre, Dagenham.
in 1955,