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The present legal position makes the supervision of these children a difficult problem.
It is necessary to have a standard for the whole Borough, and this cannot be obtained by the
method of using all the Health Vistors as Infant Life Protection or Foster Children
Visitors. Visits to the doubtful and bad cases must be made more frequently, and where
possible these cases should be prevented from continuing the work. Greater use of the
Welfare Centres should be made by the foster mothers for the children in their care. I
should like, and force if necesairy, every foster child under five to attend a Centre just as he
should do if living in the care of his own parents.
During the year the Council sent Miss Blair and Miss Bristow to the Seventeenth
Winter School for Health Visitors. This "refresher course" was most valuable to the
chosen persons and to their fellow workers. It brought them into contact with what is being
done elsewhere and the methods and ideas which are being advocated by the leading
workers in the Maternity and Child Welfare Movement.
Percival V. Pritchard,
Deputy Medical Officer of Health.