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Voluntary Helpers.—I should again like to draw attention
to the work which is being carried out by the voluntary
helpers in the Maternity and Child Welfare movement in
Wimbledon. The Centres at Pelham Road and Wandle Park
House are fortunate in having such enthusiastic workers.
Their activities are much appreciated by the mothers in
Wimbledon.
Municipal Day Nursery.—The work at the Day Nursery
at Hubert Road during 1933, continued to be most satisfactory.
The total attendances made by children amounted to
10,988 whole days. The average daily attendance was fortyfive.
These children came from one hundred and eighteen
families, one family sending four children, three families
three children, sixteen families two children, and the
remainder one child each. The number of children on the
register on 31st December, 1933, was sixty-eight.
The Nursery has accommodation for fifty children—
twenty infants and thirty toddlers. Infants are admitted
from the age of three weeks and toddlers remain until they
commence school at five years. The children are brought to
the Nursery between 7.30 and 9.0 a.m. They are then
undressed, bathed, and re-dressed in nursery clothes, their
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