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137
Number of Ilford children placed in convalescent homes:
Fees paid by voluntary funds 2
Assisted in other ways: —
Intensive Casework 4
Casework Visiting 10
Supportive Visiting 5
After-care of children who have been in our residential
schools 1
Visiting parents of children still in I.C.A.A. Schools 1
Grant towards T.V. Licence 1
Invalid Chair 2
THE HEALTH VISITOR AND THE SCHOOL NURSE.
Miss J. Oliver, Area Superintendent Health Visitor, submits the
following report: —
"Much of the work done in schools cannot be shown by statistics.
Apart from our usual visits for hygiene, eye testing and routine
medical inspections, much time is spent on discussing individual
children with the school teacher. This often involves visits to the
home, contact with Education Department, School Enquiry Officers,
N.S.P.C.C. Officer and other social workers.
It is interesting to note that forty visits were made to schools
this year, the teacher usually telephoning the health visitor in the
first instance.
The grubby, badly clothed child from the family with a severe
problem is known to many, shunned by his school fellows, especially
if enuretic. He becomes aggressive and friendless and continues
through his school days to be a misfit. The parents are difficult to
convince that clothes are important and cannot be persuaded to
accept assistance. The Health Visitors often find there is no lack
of money in these homes.
Open days are usually a great delight to the school child and
parents; somewhere in this set-up is the odd child who says "My
mummy never comes, she works". Here the teacher again asks the
health visitor about the child's background; is mother so desparately
hard up that a few hours cannot be taken off for school medical or
open day? Could we persuade mother or father to attend to discuss
the child's educational progress?