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No. of Cases Visited by Health Visitors
Children born in 1968 3,571
Children born in 1967 3,963
Children born in 1963/66 7,828
15,362
Persons aged 65 years and over 47
Persons aged 65 years and over (visited at special
request of G.P. or Hospital) 18
Mentally Disordered Persons 16
Mentally Disordered Persons (visited at special
request of G.P. or Hospital) 2
Persons Discharged from Hospitals other than
Mental (excl. maternity cases) 125
Persons Discharged from Hospitals other than
Mental (excl. maternity cases) (visited at special
request of G.P. or Hospital) 108
Tuberculous Households Visited 7
Households Visited re Other Infectious Diseases 58
Total Effective Visits and Re-visits 44,873
Unsuccessful Visits 10,513
Health Visitors—Full-time equivalent 34.05
T.B. Visitors and T.B. Health Visitors—Full-time
equivalent 6.0
Co-operation with Hospital Departments
There was no change in the attendance of Health Visitors at the
Diabetic Clinic at Greenwich District Hospital and the Paediatric
Clinic at the Memorial Hospital.
Problem Family Index
Many disciplines contribute to the care of inadequate families,
particularly where there are special problems, but the Health
Visitors maintain a constant link with them, assessing the needs
and bringing in the special help as it is required.
Frequently, the basis of all the practical difficulties lies simply
in the inability of the father to get up in the morning to face the
day ahead and to get to work at the proper time. This inability
to deal with life is the automatic consequence of a lack of drive
and an absence of anxiety.
In order to achieve anything other than a cabbage-like existence,
each person must have an enabling drive of anxiety. It is when
this drive is excessive that it becomes a crippling feature of the
personality requiring psychiatric help. Conversely, when it is
absent or when the needs of existence fail to move the person to
the normal actions of maintaining life at maximum potential, then
inadequacy is noticed.