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Informal talks on personal hygiene, good grooming and other
similar subjects were given in most of the schools during regular
hygiene surveys.
Posters and leaflets have been displayed in the Treatment
Centres and in the schools where there are Medical rooms.
Child Welfare Clinics
From the early part of the century when 'child welfare' was the
field of the voluntary bodies and the problems were mainly those of
malnutrition and insanitary conditions, to the present day highly
organised local authority services, there has been a gradual change
in emphasis of functions and purposes. Today, close liaison with
paediatricians and general practitioners is a feature of the modern
approach with the aim of detecting, at the earliest possible moment,
physical and mental handicaps in order that suitable action may be
taken and, where necessary, for special arrangements involving
medical and education problems to be planned.

Day Nursery
Admissions—During 1966, further difficulties were encountered
due to the absence of a Day Nursery in Greenwich. The allocated
ten places in a Lewisham Nursery were continually over-subscribed
and these could only be allocated to unsupported mothers and lone
parents. Local Play Groups and Nursery Schools assisted as much
as possible by accepting an occasional medically or socially handicapped
child who urgently needed such care. However, these
establishments had their own staffing difficulties and could not offer
as many places as they would wish.