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MUNICIPAL NURSERY.
The nursery at 63, Kennington Park Road continues to do good
work, and is much appreciated by the mothers living in the borough.
The staff consists of a matron and a nurse, four probationers, a cook,
house cleaner and a laundrywoman.
The number of attendances of children during the year was 10,445,
making an average daily attendance of about 37.
The charge is eightpence a day for those over nine months, and tenpence
a day for those under that age.
NURSING.
The Benson Home for Nurses receives a subsidy of £400 a year from
the Newington United Charities, and provides nurses for the sick poor of
the Newington District. Other districts are served by the Eanyard
Nurses who do valuable work, while some parishes provide a nurse for
their own district.
A Home Help is supplied by the Maternity and Child Welfare
Scheme to assist sick mothers in their house work or during their temporary
absence, but nurses are no longer employed by the Council for
the nursing of cases of measles.
DIPHTHERIA ANTITOXIN.
Diphtheria Antitoxin can be obtained any time at the Council's
Reception House, King James Street, Lancaster Street, including Sunday
and all Public Holidays, and also on ordinary week days, during the
hours between 9.0 a.m. and 5.30 p.m., at the Town Hall. This is always
kept in a fresh condition, and a sterilised syringe is also lent if necessary
to give the injection.
LABORATORY WORK.
During 1924 there has been a still further increase in the use of
facilities offered by the bacteriological department for the examination of
throat swabs and sputa; also for the blood examination for typhoid
fever, the numbers amounting to 3,008 as against 2,259 in 1923, a total
increase of 749 specimens. Of these specimens 1,920 were for tubercle
bacilli.