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102
Cases booked but subsequently cancelled 178
Number of cases where, at the end of the year,
a domestic help was booked to attend in
future months (maternity cases) 51
Other cases awaiting help at end of year 10
Enquiries incomplete at end of year 14
Cases being served at 31st December, 1960 854
One training course, of two weeks' duration, was held by the
County Council at Chelmsford in 1960. One domestic help from Ilford
attended and she was found to be entirely satisfactory.
PREVENTION OF BREAK-UP OF FAMILIES - HEALTH
OF CHILDREN. - Supervision of the few problem families in the Area
continues, the Health Visitors taking the leading role and discussing
the problems with interested persons, e.g., General Practitioners,
Teachers, Housing Manager and Psychiatric Social Workers. Local case
conferences are called as necessary.
Arrangements were made under the County Council's scheme
for the admission of one family, consisting of mother, father and four
children, to the Rehabilitation Unit at Dr. Bernardo's Homes, Barkingside,
on the 3rd August, 1960. They were still in residence there on the 31st
December.