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health is the frequent removal from one home to another. The
admissions and removals from our register during the year are as
great as the number thereon at any one time. An infant of tender
age has little chance of thriving under conditions which deny it
a settled routine. Unfortunately, the child undergoes these frequent
changes of foster care mostly during the first 12 months or so
of life, a period when a sound foundation for its physical and mental
constitution should be laid down. Not a few foster toddlers present
to the welfare doctor, on arrival in this district, the well-known
picture of a pale, flabby, pot-bellied, under-nourished body, the
reasons for which are not hard to find when one knows the story
of its postnatal peregrinations.
DAY NURSERY.
A day nursery administered by a voluntary Committee and
situated near the centre of the district provides 18 places. It is
supported by a substantial grant from the Council.
The number of attendances in 1938 was 2666, which is 229 less
than in the year before. The nursery was open on 213 days which
gives an average of 12.5 for each day the nursery was open.
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