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(c) For many years it has been the practice to lend suitable
combs at the Council's clinics to mothers found to require
them.
(d) For some time supplies of Lethane Hair Oil have been
available at clinics.
(e) As a matter of routine, health visitors have always given
relatively more attention to homes and mothers considered
to be unsatisfactory in their standard of maternal care ;
but it has never been considered necessary to re-classify
the homes in each health visitor's district.
(f) It is rather difficult to understand why visits should be
made to homes about tea-time.
General Observations.
It is estimated that about 5 per cent. of Leyton mothers are
habitually verminous. Such chronic offenders in matters pertaining
to cleanliness generally refuse to admit the presence of vermin
when demonstrated either in their own or their children's heads ;
and very often they resent, in no uncertain terms, attention being
called to the fact. It is not difficult to imagine the type of reception
a health visitor would be likely to receive from such an overworked
mother of a large family if the health visitor began offering advice
while the mother was preparing tea.