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unacceptable. The consultant and family doctor only recommended
this after a very thorough investigation and it has resulted in an ease
of tension in the families concerned.
In the debt cases, the family comes to feel that the whole
situation is hopeless, they become apathetic and family relationships
are very strained, each partner blaming the other for their circumstances.
Generous help has been provided in the form of clothing,
furniture, bedding etc. from the W.V.S., Red Cross, Shaftesbury
Society. One family with a multitude of debts was helped by the
Glasspool Trust after some effort had been made of their own. This
helped them to feel the situation was improving a little more rapidly
and they have continued with regular weekly payments since, in spite
of added expenditure on coal, etc. which has made budgeting for these
families increasingly difficult this winter. Both special services
health visitors wish to acknowledge gratefully help they have received
from local societies. The Round Table of Hornsey arranged a
holiday for two families and gave constructive and personal help to
twelve families at Christmas. N. A. L. G. O. arranged a Christmas
party which was very much enjoyed by all the children between three
and eleven years. In Tottenham the Rotary Club and Round Table
made it possible for four boys to attend Highgate camp in August.
Bertram Mills Circus and the Wembley Stadium were again generous
in issuing free tickets enabling some of the mothers to have an outing
with their children during the Christmas season.
Miss Howse, in Hornsey, has accepted invitations to speak at
various Guilds, Youth Clubs, Parent-Teacher Associations etc. and
keeps in close contact with the excellent work done by the Churches
in Hornsey.
Intensive family case work continues to help keep families
together and is not only of benefit to the families and the children
concerned, but in view of the expense of residential care is an
enormous saving of public money.