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66 Report of the Medical Officer of Health for 1930.
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.
Balluim Balham Day Nursery ,
22, Old Devonshire Road.
They are voluntary institutions, receiving grants from the
Borough Council. 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 Od. 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, 4,887; Balham, 7,087;
Tooting, 3,930; and Wandsworth, 6,758; a total of 23,157.
compared with 20,997 in 1929.
128 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