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Maternity and Child Welfare. 73
The challenge shield was won by Tooting (Fairlight Hall)
Infant Welfare Centre. Springfield Centre was second and
Putney and Balham tied for third place.. 13 honours certificates,
18 first class, and nine second class certifcates were awarded
to individual competitors.
Day Nurseries.
The addresses of the four Day Nurseries in the Borough
are as follows:—
Putney Putney Creche, 95, Lacy Road.
Tooting Fairlight Hall Day Nursery,
Fairlight Road.
Wandsworth Wandsworth Day Nursery and
Training School, 14, Garratt
Lane.
Balham Balham Day Nursery,
22, Old Devonshire Road.
The Day Nurseries are voluntary institutions subsidised by
Exchequer and Borough Council grants. Children are admitted
whose mothers are obliged to go out to work, or who are ill,
or who for any other reasonable cause are unable to look after
their children. The parents' payments vary from 6d. to 1s.
per day for one child a reduction being made when more than
one child from the same family is admitted, or when a child
is admitted for half a day only.
The Putney, Wandsworth and Balham Day Nurseries are
also training schools for nurses who intend to take up creche
work. They are admitted as probationers and remain for about
a year, receiving practical and theoretical training. The matrons
give courses of lectures, which the probationers are bound to
attend, and an examination is held at the end of the course.
The attendances were:—Putney, 5,315; Balham, 6,549;
Tooting, 4,718; and Wandsworth, 7,208; a total of 23,790,
compared with 23,664 in 1927.
101 inspections of the creches were made during the year
bv the Health Visitors,