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students obtained the N.S.C.N. Diploma, and one student passed
with distinction.
The Cambridge Region of the Ministry of Health, issued a
circular (2675) on 2.3.43, authorising the issue of badges to
persons engaged in residential nursery work to indicate the
importance of this national service. Badges were consequently
issued to members of the staff of the Tottenham Residential Nursery,
Hertford.
The Matron of this nursery met with a serious accident on the
22nd February, 1943, whilst on vacation. Fortunately she made
a good recovery and returned to work on the 17th November, 1943,
but she was much missed during her long illness. Health visitors
in rota from Tottenham took charge of the nursery during her
absence, so that satisfactory running was maintained. The nursery
continues to be a most useful part of the Maternity and Child Welfare
provisions of the Borough, making provision for many short-stayed
children during temporary domestic alteration in family life.
The neighbouring secondary schools were informed of the
particulars of the training course in the War-time Nursery Service
in accordance with a Ministry of Health letter. Several groups
of the girls visited the nurseries. The Juvenile Employment Bureau
has given most useful help, in assisting in the provision of probationers
and by making the work known to school leavers.
The help provided regularly throughout the year by the Civil
Nursing Reserve members, and from the First Aid Mobile Unit
of the Civil Defence, has been much appreciated.
The salaries and conditions of work of the nursery staff were
the subject of circular 2893, Ministry of Health, dated 18th December
1943, which set out the changes recommended by the second report
of the Rushcliffe Nurses Salaries Committee, to bring the conditions
into line with improvements suggested for the other branches of the
nursing services. Early in 1944 these recommendations were
considered by the Committee and adopted in full, to operate
retrospectively from April, 1943, except in the case of probationers,
whose conditions of service remained unaltered until 1st April, 1944.
Health of Children in the Nurseries.
Except during the influenza epidemic of November and
December, 1943, and outbreaks of Measles and Whooping Cough