[Report 1930] / Medical Officer of Health, Perth City.

  • Perth (Scotland). City Council.
Date:
1930
Catalogue details

Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Credit: [Report 1930] / Medical Officer of Health, Perth City. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    48/72 page 46
    at present there are no means of increasing this capacity, and while increased accommodation would have been provided by acquiring the adjacent house had that been possible, the question of new premises has been under the, consideration of the Town Council. Early in the year enquiries were made regarding the acquisition of suitable premises and ground in King Street but unfortunately these were unavailable. In March a Sub Committee of the Public Health Committee had a meeting with repre- sentatives from the Perth School Management Committee and the Perth Day Nursery, with regard to the establishment of a Nursery School, at which meeting it was general] v agreed that the matter was one in which the Education Authority, the Town Council and the Day Nursery should co-operate, and that the parties should report to the respective Committees with a view to a Joint Committee being appointed to go further into the matter. The Committee remitted to the Sub-Committee to consider the matter further along with the representatives of the other bodies and to report. But the labours of the Committee have not been confined to conversations with the mothers, although the social element has never been lost sight of, nay, is made the most of, and a Sewing Class started in 1919 has been one of the most successful branches of the work. The class meets on Wednesday afternoons throughout the winter months, and from the regularity of the attendance it is evident that the mothers appreciate it. Many new garments are made, but the re-making of old ones is the chief feature, and many a most unlikely article—cast oil garments, legs of stocking, etc.—has been trans- formed into a useful article for baby. The garments cut out during the year numbered 282, and many articles of the mothers’ work- manship were exhibited in the windows throughout the year. The class started on the Wednesday evenings seven winters ago for young women and those mothers who were unable to attend the afternoon session has been continued, and it is'pleasing to record that the attendance of the younger members has been very gratify- ing, and that much good work is being done. Four years ago a “Baby Basket” scheme was inaugurated by the Ladies’ Committee on behalf of necessitous cases. These are given gratis, and means the giving of woollies—two to three garments constituting a basket. I luring the past year 280 garments were given.
    digitised image 1
    digitised image 2
    digitised image 3