BRITANNIA'S BABIES

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 21, 25 February 1942, Page 2

BRITANNIA'S BABIES

BEING TENDED IN 1000 NURSERIES Nearly one thousand nurseries are 1 now open throughout Great Britain • to-day. Very many cf them are war > time State nurseries brought into ' being by the call to married women ' to do work in the war. 1 There are sijnple Day Nurseries, ' earing lor children whose mothers 1 are absent only for the working day. There are Children's Hotels, where the evacuated youngsters stay permanently. There are special residential centres for children who have been shaken by bombing. All of them, staffed by registered nurses and dieticians, are a success. In a typical centre, at Bibury in, Gloucestershire, each child gained from 1 to 4ib in weight. This particular nursery caters for cases, most of whom suffered from anaemia and malnutriton apart from emotional disturbance. All the nurseries accept children irrespective l of their nationality. Sylvia Linial, for example, is a small Austrian girl or three who- had to be taught again how to walk. Now she runs and is going to a nursery for normal children. Brenda Macey, '2, bomb-shocked, could not bear to be touched at first. She was. scarcely able 1 to eat her I food and she had night terrors. Now she is well and happy once more. The women's Voluntary Services help in the work for Britannia's Babies and the American Red Cross lias given it £65,000.