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Day Nursery Service.
The five day nurseries in the borough, accommodating 245 children, were
used to capacity.

Attendance of Psychiatric Social Worker at the
Infant Welfare Clinic.
For an experimental period arrangements were made for a psychiatric
social worker from the Child Guidance Clinic to attend the Infant Welfare
Clinic at York House, on Monday afternoons, commencing on the 26th April,
1948. The object of this arrangement was to try the effect of close
co.operation between a psychiatric social worker and the Health Visitors at
the Infant Welfare Centre. It was believed that it would be possible to
prevent many psychological problems in young children from arising at all
if psychiatric guidance were available in the earliest stages of the difficulty.
It was felt that mothers would respond more readily if the approach were
made in the homely atmosphere of a welfare clinic in the first instance, rather
than that the first approach should take place at the Child Guidance Clinic.
This is not to say that the atmosphere is different in the two clinics, but that,
as the Child Guidance Clinic is still comparatively young compared with the
welfare centre, mothers have not yet quite got used to the idea of using the
Child Guidance Clinic to the same extent as the welfare centre. The
arrangements proved most satisfactory,
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