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Co-operation with Hospital Departments
By attending the paediatric clinics at the Memorial and Greenwich District Hospitals, health visitors are more able to ensure
support to families with a handicapped pre-school child, furthermore,
by virtue of the practice of attending the ante-natal and
diabetic clinics at the District Hospital they are enabled to exert
an influence for good on the family in general and advise mothers
of services available.
Medical staff, Health Visitors and Midwives attended Study
Days at the British Hospital for Mothers and Babies on three
occasions during the year and we are most grateful for these kind
invitations received from the hospital authorities.
Problem Family Index
There are in the Borough 188 families with serious problems
due perhaps to difficult housing, unemployment, mental stress or
definite inadequacy and sometimes arising from a combination of
all these factors.
Such families have received continuous help and support, especially with their 254 children under 5 years of age, of whom
10 were on the Observation Register as suspected or proven
battered babies. These babies are reviewed frequently and in most
cases there is improvement following the support and help given
by the Health Visitors and colleagues.