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Other Visitors included health visitors attending post-certificate
courses, student teachers from several training colleges, university
social science students, student ward sisters from the Staff
College,, King Edward" s Fund for London, Public Health nurses from
Israel, Barnardo"s students, student nursery nurses and others.
Clinic Premises have been made available for the use of voluntary
bodies - The National Blood Transfusion Service and The Family
Planning Association. The Family Planning Association has the
use of the School clinic, Hornsey Town Hail on Monday and Tuesday
evenings each week, and on Wednesday evenings weekly at Lordship
Lane School Clinic, Tottenham
Prevention of Breakup of Families = Special Services Health
Visitors
As stated in my report for 1956, two health visitors were
appointed to specialise in the care of problem families and their
children in order to prevent the breakup of the family, to
prevent deterioration in the well-being and health of the children
and to promote better standards of home making Families are
usually referred to the special services health visitor by the
health visitor for the district,, but may be accepted from other
agencies As soon as the case is accepted for intensive work all
other health visiting ceases, the full responsibility for home
visiting rests on the specialised worker A great deal of co op
eration has been experienced from family doctors hospitals the
clergy specialists of various kinds, including those in local
authority's service, from voluntary organisations and private
individuals
The support given by the specialist health visitors has on
the whole been most rewarding to families floundering in debt and
other troubles and to the visitors themselves The demand on the
Home Help Service has been negligible as only one family where the
mother is seriously ill has been provided with this service In
one case a debt of £153 has been reduced to £10
Some improvement has been achieved in all the families in
some the recovery has been considerable and the amount of aid has
been gradually reduced Miss Howse, one of the two specialist
workers, states "all the children are secure and well looked after
I have been able to reduce my aid to some families because of the
support they are receiving from the contacts I have been able to
make for them Only in the years ahead will the true value of