View report page

Use of clinics for B.C.G. Vaccination
During the year the Mildura Court, Burgoyne Road and Stroud Green
Road Welfare Centres have been used on a number of occasions by the
Chest Physician for Hornsey for the purpose of carrying out tuberculin
testing and B.C.G. vaccination of contact cases. It is hoped that eventually
a chest clinic will be established in Hornsey and in the meantime
this temporary arrangement saves many patients the long journey to
the chest clinic in Finchley.
Toddlers Clinics
In the Annual Report for 1954 it was stated that more effort was to
be made to widen the knowledge of medical officers on the mental health
aspect in the care of young children.
The psychiatrist (Dr. Cyril Phillips), who attends both Child Guidance
clinics in Hornsey and Tottenham, devotes one session per week to
"sit in with" a medical officer and discuss some of the problems of these
children, with the mother present. This has proved both interesting and
rewarding. Gravely disturbed children are not included but the common
problems of the physically healthy child who, for instance, refuses food,
has disturbed sleep or resents toilet training are considered.
This psychological approach yields satisfactory and in some cases
quite rapid results in young children attending the Toddler and welfare
clinics.
As each medical officer spends three months with the psychiatrist for
one session per week, confidence in this new approach is assured.
67