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Report of the Medical Officer of Health for 1929.
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, 4,586; Balham, 6,623;
Tooting, 3,872; and Wandsworth, 5,910; a total of 20,997,
compared with 23,790 in 1928.
116 inspections of the creches were made during the year
by the Health Visitors.
Institutions for Expectant and Nursing Mothers and
Young Children.
The Streatham Babies' Hospital, 9, Leigham Court Road,
Streatham, is for the treatment of infants up to the age of
five years. There are 20 cots, and the nursing staff consists
of Matron, a Sister, two Assistant Nurses and three Probationers.
A Visiting Medical Officer attends daily. The parents
pay 10s. Od. per week for their children, but necessitous cases
are admitted free, or at a reduced fee, according to circumstances.
Medical practitioners can recommend cases for admission
and attend them while in the Hospital.
100 infants were admitted in 1929, 02 from addresses in
the Borough, and 38 from outside the Borough. Most of the
cases were infants suffering from Marasmus, Gastritis and
Debility.
The Borough Council pay an annual grant of £500 to
this Hospital under their maternity and child welfare scheme.
During the year an application was made to the Council
by the SS. Peter and Paul Home, Clapham, for grant. The