View report page

19
Para. 4: Calls attention to the
duty of Health Visitors to make
regular visits and where necessary
to advise as to the advisability of
consulting their family doctor or
appropriate clinic.
Para. 5: Suggests the advisability
of holding "Toddlers" Clinics and
points out the success of these is
largely dependent on the work of the
Health Visitor.
During 1936, 3,557 visits (other
than special visits) were made to
children between the ages of 1 and
5 years.
There are no special "Toddlers"
Clinics in the Borough, and these
children attend the ordinary sessions
of the M. and C.W. Clinics.
During 1936, 829 children between
1 and 5 years of age made 5,019
attendances. This includes 223 new
children. It is estimated that there
were 2,000 children in the 2/5 age
group in the District in 1936.
Para. 6: Points out that "in
many areas the School Clinic is
available for the treatment of minor
ailments and of special defects in
young children."
Also points out the desirability
"that the Medical Officer who will
supervise the health of these children
after they enter school should be
responsible for this supervision
during the pre-school years."
He also states that "it can most
readily be effected if the Maternity and
Chili Welfare Service is in the hands
of the local authority responsible for
the School Medical Service" and that
the best results will be obtained "if
the responsibility for attending to
the health of children, from birth up
to school leaving age, is concentrated
in the hands of one and the same
authority."
There is no doubt that these
special clinics are most desirable and
in this Borough all School Clinics are
open to and used by children
attending the M. and C.W. Clinics.
The Dental and Orthopaedic Clinics
are the most used, and arrangements
are made with the Chiswick Hospital
for the treatment of tonsils and
adenoids in school children and
extended to these younger children.
This highly desirable arrangement
is made in this Borough and applies
both to medical and nursing services.
In my opinion any separation of
the administrating authorities in
this area would be a disaster as far
as the value of the medical services
are concerned.
Para. 7 : States that where the
M. and C.W. Service and School
Medical Service are under two
separate authorities, the authority
which is the Education Authority
may, under Section 60 of the Local
Government Act, 1929, make representation
to the Minister for the
M. and C.W. Service to be transferred
to them. In a number of cases this
transfer has already been made.