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Two hundred and forty nine talks were given to school children in 1954 as
conpared with one hundred in 1953.
The assistance of clinic nurses has helped to relieve the health visitor
of some of her duties, so as to maintain the existing services and develop the
wider conception of health teaching.
School Nursing
Infestation of school children has lessened to a remarkable degree during
the last four years. This is probably due to the exclusion of all those
found to be infested instead of only those showing a marked degree of infestation.
The number of children examined in 1951 was 99,066 of whom 1,231 (1.2%)
were infested as compared with 113,320 examined in 1954 of whom 594 (0.5%)
were infested.
Health Visitors and Hospitals
Good liaison exists between health visitors, almoners and other personnel
connected with the hospitals, particularly in relation to expectant mothers,
discharged from hospital, who are in need of further care and attention and
others who should attend hospital and fail to do so.
A health visitor regularly attends the Paediatric Department of the
Prince of Wales's Hospital.
Daily telephone enquiries and information is received and sent out to
hospitals in the London and Metropolitan Area as well as written health
visitors' reports to these and other agencies concerned with health and
welfare.
Health Visitors and Family Doctors
The Superintendent Health Visitor was invited to speak on "The Work of
the Health Visitor" to the North Middlesex Branch of the British Medical
Association on the 28th May, 1954. This was followed by questions, comments
and a good deal of discussion. On the 17th July an informal meeting of
health visitors, medical officers and family doctors was held at Lordship Lane
Clinic.
This year there has been an increased number of requests from family
doctors for health visitors to follow-up or give assistance to patients or
families in their care. Reporting back to the family doctor is recognised as
being of supreme importance if good liaison between both parties is to be
achieved.