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grounds and for individual children attending day
nurseries to receive speech therapy or physiotherapy),
and of residential care in foster homes, nurseries or
children's homes.
(c) Health Aspects of Youth Counselling (including family
planning advice).
(d) Mental Health including:-
The ready availability of medical advice in relation to
both individual needs and the development of the
community mental health services generally will be a
key factor in promoting the care of the mentally ill and
the mentally handicapped as outlined in the recent
White Paper. Close collaboration between health and
social services locally is indispensable to success in
this extremely important field. One new development of
interest is that adult training centres for the mentally
handicapped may now be registered under the Factories
Acts, entailing the appointment of Appointed Factory
Doctors to undertake the regular medical examination of
young persons between the ages of 15 and 18 years and
to give other medical advice as appropriate. This
responsibility can be regarded as a continuation of the
special medical supervision exercised at junior training
schools and can thus fittingly be assumed by school
doctors already familiar with the special problems of
mental handicap.
(e) The Adult Chronically Sick and Physically Disabled
To cater adequately for the needs of this very important
group will require the same degree of close co-operation
already referred to in relation to mental health. Both
medical and nursing advice will be needed regarding
both the need for and the use of special aids and
appliances at home.
(f) The Care of the Elderly including:-
Promotion of healthy old age (with particular reference to
the health education role of the health visitor).
Provision of the incontinent laundry service.
To further close collaboration between the health and
social services in catering for the needs of the
physically and the mentally infirm„