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M.& C.W./5.
TOTTENHAM DAY NURSERY
(evacuated to Bengeo House,Bengeo.Hertford)
This evacuated day nursery continues to be a source of health
as well as nursery nurture to Tottenham children requiring residential
as opposed to day nursery attention. The quota is made up largely of
children requiring constant supervision,either because of a further
confinement of the mother or because of debility in the child. The
benefit derived from a period of country air and regular hours is
almost miraculous,especially in these times of complete blackout at
night.
The register shows that the number of children in residence
rose from 32 in January to 37 in Deceit*er during which period 40 fresh
children were admitted; while 35 (including 10 who had reached school
age), were discharged.
Of the 37 remaining at the end of the year, there were none
under the age of one year; with four under 2; thirteen under 3;
twelve under 4; and eight under five years of age - thus maintaining
the tradition that the place for a breast-fed child is with its
mother.
PARK LANE MUNICIPAL DAY NURSERY.
Though not recognised as a wartime day nursery, this building
has been constantly filled to capacity, almost exclusively with the
children of war-working mothers; and the fees have been brought into
line with those of wartime nurseries.
The health of the children was maintained at a high level
throughout the year, and the physical and mental development of each
child progressed at rates well above the average for the area.
The average daily attendance throughout the year was 37.85
which reflects the keenness of all concerned.
VALE ROAD WARTIME DAY NURSERY.
This nursery, opened on the 28th April,1941,is the largest
the Tottenham area, and caters for 60 children, all of whose
Others are engaged in vital war work.
Being in the midst of a district in which factories aro more
abundant, its entrants tend to be of a lower physical standard than
at the Park Lane Nursery, so that an average daily attendance of 40
children for the whole of 1941 may be considered extremely good.
The improvement in the health of each child after a short
period in the nursery has been remarkable, and,apart from mild
catarrhal conditions the sickness rate has remained very low.
TODDLERS' CLINICS.
Clinics for the supervision of children not in regular
attendance at the infant welfare sessions were held weekly at the
Park Lane Municipal Medical Centre, and bi-weekly at the Lordship Lane
and the Chestnuts Centres, with a view to ensuring that, when these
Children attain school age, their general resistance and physical
condition shall be at an optimum.
Out of a total of 275 attendances since April 1941, 124 of
these toddlers were found have defects requiring treatment.
P.T.O.