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(d) Co-operation with the General Hospitals.
From experience it was found that the records of many of the children
under 5 years of age attending the clinics were incomplete in respect of
serious illnesses which had necessitated hospital treatment. The officials
of five hospitals in the neighbourhood where the majority of Poplar
children are treated were interviewed by the Medical Officer of Health.
Through their kind and willing co-operation a scheme was arranged
whereby a report on each Poplar child treated in their hospitals is sent
to the Medical Officer of Health.
The report, in addition to giving information regarding the clinical
condition of the child, calls attention to any after-care which is required,
and so enables our Health Visitors to follow up and see that the Hospital
recommendations are carried out.
Books of 100 forms are supplied to each hospital, together with
"Business Reply" envelopes, in order to reduce to a minimum the work
of the Hospital staffs.
523 reports were received
from St. Andrew's Hospital 423
from Voluntary Hospitals 100
(In addition to the above the London County Council sent 602 reports
of children discharged from the Fever Hospitals, and again the Health
Visitors follow up to see that the Hospital recommendations are carried
out.)
(e) Co-operation with the Education Authority.
(a) 44 of the senior girls undergoing training at the London County
Council Domestic School, Dingle Lane, attended Simpsons Road Clinic
for instruction in mothercraft.
(b) 1,833 case sheets relating to the children who reached the age of
5 years were forwarded to the Education Department. 853 special
reports were also forwarded regarding children attending school, not yet
5 years of age.
(f) Co-operation with the Invalid Children's Aid Association.
The Council at their meeting on 29th November, 1934, agreed—
1. To make a grant of £10 per annum to the Invalid Children's
Aid Association (local branch) towards the cost of providing
surgical appliances for children under the age of 5 years;