NANNIES ON WHEELS

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 72, 1 July 1942, Page 6

NANNIES ON WHEELS

FOR "BLITZED - ' CHILDREN Children -who may ho made homeless in certain blitzed areas ol' England will be visited by "Nannies" on wheels. 1 hey are three cars which form a mobile infant welfare unit. Equip.ped Jtli ev v13 tjiiJi *4, 1 rom a cookinu' stove to a new-born baby's first Garment, "Nannie- I"'' is the maternity van with complete accouchement equipment, "Nannie iJ." the teehnieal vim for dispensing and emergency feeding of mot hers and infants, and "Nannie Hi'" for .spares and supplies. Presented to the nation by a famous firm of chemists Ihey are stalled by three Stat', registered nurses (one of them a certificated midwife), live nurses who have had a .short infant welfare course and a .male orderly-cunt-me-chanic. When the unit goes into actien a tent annexe provides' ward accommodation, and is fitted up with

portable cots and beds. Should there lie any lull in bombing attacks, the unit is centred at a provincial town in the south of Eng-. land, and goes round the outlying villages not so well served with clinics as the big cities. Under the supervision of the regional Medical Officer of Health, the nurses make, house to house visits, set up war nurseries for evacuated children and help to crcate new day nurseries. The mobile unit, the first of its kind, is expected to be the forerunner of a maternity and infant welfare service to outlying industrial and rural districts.