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DAY NURSERIES: 1941-46
TC 19: 1 box only
BOX 1 : DAY NURSERY SURVEY 1941-42. MISCELLANEOUS CORRESPONDENCE AND PUBLICATIONS 1935-46
19/1/A: Day Nursery Survey 1941-42
Handwritten report on survey and letter to TH, London (MT) 3.2.42
Typed report "The Demand For Day Nurseries" (Mass-Observation) 11.3.42
Handwritten guide to the survey, with linking pencilled reference numbers (MT)
Government circulars with handwritten summaries (MT) 1941
Handwritten reports on demands for nurseries and factors affecting demand (MT) 21.1.42
Handwritten reports on West Hampstead and St Pancras nurseries (MT) 23.1.42
Handwritten interviews with: Medical Officers of Health and Press Officer for MoH, Hampstead, Enfield, Walthamstow, Wandsworth, St Pancras. Matrons of two nurseries, Wandsworth and Camden. Chief Health Visitor, Wandsworth. Organising Secretary of Nursery School Association. (MT) January-February 1942
Typed diary extracts
Three handwritten indirects
Handwritten miscellaneous notes
19/1/B: Day Nursery Survey 1941-42
Handwritten QQ January 1942 (MT)
50 handwritten responses to QQ, West Hampstead, Wandsworth, St PancrasJanuary 1942 (MT)
Handwritten report on QQ and analysis 1942
Typed sheet of report 1942
19/1/C: Day Nursery Survey 1941-42
Newspaper cuttings and typed extracts from newspapers and Hansard 1941-42
19/1/D: Day Nursery Survey 1941-42
Handwritten reports on day nurseries, London, Coventry, Chester, Cardiff, Leeds 1941-42 (PN, VT, CF, MT, IC)
19/1/E: Tom Harrisson-Miscellaneous Correspondence 1941-46
Letter and typed report of meeting on women's welfare 1941
Correspondence with Aneuran Bevan, Woodrow Wyatt and others on grants to day nurseries and closure of nurseries, 1945-46
Typed extracts from Hansard, 1945-46
Typed interview with Mr HJ Ryan, Assistant Secretary MoH (TH) 22.10.46
Attendance figures for day nurseries in Northern Ireland, September-October 1946
19/1/F: Miscellaneous Publications
Publications from Nursery School Association including 1 copy of Nursery World and cuttings 1935-46
19/1/G: Miscellaneous publications and newspaper cuttings
Publications including MoH Reports, Planning (PEP) and British Medical Journal, and cuttings on nurseries, mothers in work, deprived children and care of children, 1945-46