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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
Health is ex-officio a member of the General Council, whose function
is to co-ordinate the work of the Centres.
138 health talks were given by the Health Visitors during
the year.

Crèches.
There are four crèches in the Borough—Putney, Balham,
Tooting and Wandsworth. 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 crèches are voluntary institutions subsidised by grants
from the Borough Council and the Board of Education. The
parents' payments vary from 8d. to 1s. per head, a reduction
being made when more than one child from the same family is
admitted. The Putney and Wandsworth Day Nurseries are also
training schools for nurses who intend to take up crèche work.
They are admitted as probationers and serve a term of six
months, receiving not only practical training but also theoretical.
The matrons give courses of lectures which the probationers are
bound to attend, and an examination is held at the end of the
course. 169 inspections of the crèches were made during the
year by the Health Visitors, who represent the Medical Officer
of Health on the Committees.