. Garden cities in theory and practice; being an amplification of a paper on the potentialities of applied science in a garden city, read before Section F of the British Association . nly in regard to the manner of spendingtheir days, but also in regard to proper nourish-ment. Contrast this with children regularly takenand left at the day nursery. On sanitary grounds,also, the value of the creche is at once me quote Mrs. Moser, an energetic member ofthe ladies committee of the Bradford creche, forexample, who says: Each child, on arrival, isstripped and bathed and clothed in garme
. Garden cities in theory and practice; being an amplification of a paper on the potentialities of applied science in a garden city, read before Section F of the British Association . nly in regard to the manner of spendingtheir days, but also in regard to proper nourish-ment. Contrast this with children regularly takenand left at the day nursery. On sanitary grounds,also, the value of the creche is at once me quote Mrs. Moser, an energetic member ofthe ladies committee of the Bradford creche, forexample, who says: Each child, on arrival, isstripped and bathed and clothed in garmentsbelonging to the nursery, designed so as to be aslight and warm as possible. Each childs ownclothing is kept separate, and each has separatetowel and hair-brush, their feeding-bottles andteats being numbered and kept quite separate. Then as to nourishment, the same lady adds, thefeeding is carried out according to the orders of thehonorary medical officer. Humanized milk from theCorporation depot is given, and efforts are madeto persuade the parents to continue this at theirhomes as the regular diet. It should be mentionedthat the Bradford Corporation have very wisely 516 B. MUNICIPAL HUMANIZED MILK DEPOTS 517 established a humanized milk depot, and in additionto the infants being fed upon this, the mothers arefurnished with all they may require at cost price foruse in their own homes. One recoils from a descrip-tion of the dirt and squalor of a motherless homesheltering uncared-for nurse -children—dirty andill-fed. On the other hand, it is pleasant enough tocontemplate such a picture as the interior of theHulme creche at Manchester—which I have takenquite at random, and merely by way of example—apicture of comfort wherein we see the infants snuglyensconced in their capacious bassinettes suspendedfrom the ceiling. It surely requires no word to beadded as to the value of such infantile homes,both to the children and to the nation. Wereit necessary, perhaps, no more path
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