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It has now been found desirable to institute a regular under-five clinic,
held on Friday mornings at the Lordship Lane Medical Centre in conjunction
with monthly visits by Dr. Meyer to outlying clinics.
It is hoped to extend the contacts with workers in this essential
aspect of the field of child health.
Daily Guardian Scheme
There has been a decrease in the number of children minded
by the day under this scheme although they have been minded for
longer periods.
Number of Daily Guardians on register 263
Number of Daily Guardians minding Children 103
Number of Children being minded 114
Total number of children minded during the year 252
Total number of days minded 30,420
Day Nurseries
There are three day nurseries in the Area, one in Hornsey and
two in Tottenham, provided for daytime care of certain children in the
under five years of age group.
Intrinsically, admission to a day nursery is based on health
grounds, but to ensure that the limited accommodation is used for
children in most need, a scheme is operated to confine admissions
to certain categories.
These are children whose mothers are unsupported (i.e. unmarried,
widow, etc) who are anxious to keep their children with them
but who must necessarily go out to work,
or where the home conditions are in themselves unsatisfactory,
or where the mother is incapable of undertaking full care of her
children so that the children's health is likely to suffer,
or where the mother is compelled to work as an economic
necessity because the father's net income is below a certain level,
or where the child itself is handicapped, being either a deaf,
partially deaf, partially sighted child, etc.
Certain other conditions must also be observed and these
include:-
that there are no other satisfactory means of dally minding,
that it will not be detrimental to the child's health to be
admitted,
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