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Report of the Medical Officer of Health for 1932.
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.
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 Day Nurseries in Putney, Wandsworth and Balham are
also training schools for nurses intending to take up creche work
who are admitted as probationers and remain for about a year.
Practical and theoretical instruction is given by the matrons
and this includes courses of lectures, which the probationers have
to attend before they can sit for the examination which is held
at the end of the course.
The attendances at the Day Nurseries were:—Putney, 4,891;
Balham, 5,872; Tooting, 4,270 and Wandsworth, 5,601; a total
of 20,684, compared with 28,124 in 1931.
64 inspections of the creches were made during the year by
the Health Visitors.
Institutions for Expectant and Nursing Mothers and
Young Children.
The Council pays an annual grant to the Streatham Babies'
Hospital, 9, Leigham Court Road, which is a small hospital containing
20 cots for the treatment of infants up to the age of five
years. The staff consists of a Matron, one Sister, two Assistant
Nurses and three Probationers. A Visiting Medical Officer attends
daily. The standard fee is 10s. 6d. per week, but necessitous
cases are admitted free, or at a reduced fee, according to circumstances.