NURSERIES IN FACTORIES

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 54, 18 May 1942, Page 6

NURSERIES IN FACTORIES

WHERE CHILDREN PLAY WHILE THEIR MOTHERS WORK Women on war work in Britain can now take their children with them, leave them in a factory nursery, and pick them up Avhen they go home for the day. Works nurseries are being opened to help the hundreds of day nurseries run by public bodies for the mothers who go out to work I'or the war. At Fort Dunlop in the Midlands they arrive at seven in the morning with their children and hand them over to the trained nurse. An hour later the youngsters (they arc from three to five years old) aregiven porridge and milk, bown bread and butter, and so on. Playtime, with kindergarten, and perhaps walks, takes them to the mid-day meal after which they have a short sleep. They are taught to saj r prayers and Grace before their meals and they make their own little beds before they go home at six in the evening. The mother pays a shilling a day for it all, including meals. Another factory in the north of England where the mothers are making armaments is opening a nursery night and day. Here children as young as one month will be cared for by a qualified matron, two nursing sisters and young nursing students, all under tlie supervision of the works medical officer. During air-raid alarms the youngsters will be shepherded into a shelter furnished with cots.