Pram Garages for Flats

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 261, 31 July 1937, Page 5 (Supplement)

Pram Garages for Flats

London, July 9. TpLATS with lock-up “pram garages” and lifts to make life easier for mothers living on the upper floors have been suggested by the Council of the National Baby Week as part of its scheme for better homes. The scheme has been inaugurated to mark the coming of age of the National Baby Week movement. Every workingclass mother, in the opinion of Dr. D. H. Geffen. joint honorary secretary of the council, is entitled to a lock-up for her pram. “The middle classes, and certainly the upper classes, would not dream of taking a house without a garage,” he told me. “But the pram is far more important to the working mother than the car is to her wealthier neighbour.” A lift for mothers living on the fourth or fifth floor was also essential, he said. Where getting up and down stairs was difficult, families tended to stay cooped up in the confined space of a fiat instead of getting out into the open. Another reform which Dr. Geffen is advocating is the installation of sound-proof wireless corners in every home so that radio sets would not be heard outside the room in which they are being used. The idea follows the receipt of complaints about the sleeplessness of children, a groat deal of which was thought to be duo to the ase of wireless until late at night,