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Formal Health Education By Health Visitors
The provision of a film projector for use in this Area is
still considered necessary, and though expenditure on this was
refused during the past year application will be renewed
Series of talks on parentcraft were given to all except one
of the secondary modern schools in Hornsey and to five similar
schools in Tottenham The teaching of parentcraft to boys by
health visiting staff has not met with much success although it
was undertaken by an experienced member of the staff this year for
the first time.
Talks given to schools this year numbered 372. Visits to
clinics were arranged in some cases as part of the programme
The continuance of this part of the health visitor/school nurse
work is of the very greatest importance, as it is from this group
that the young mothers of the future will come Already a number
of mothers visiting local clinics have reminded health visitors
that the first introduction they had to parentcraft was by this
means Members of the health visitor/school nurse staff who
undertake this teaching Have received the utmost co operation from
head teachers and their staff.
The school teaching of parentcraft as described above has
been observed by representatives of the Ministries of Health and
Education.
Finally reference should be made to the policy of limiting
the number of health visitors attending the courses on techniques
of health teaching to one health visitor in each year Ten years
seems an absurdly long time to wait for the opportunity to send a
second member of the staff on such a valuable course of instruction.
The Daily Guardian Scheme.
This scheme was continued as in previous years for working
mothers unable to make satisfactory arrangements for the daily
minding of their children and not eligible for admission to the
County Council's day nurseries in the Area.
This system has worked exceedingly well for a number of years
The few rules associated with it have only been imposed to safe
guard the interests of the children. The number of individual
children minded during the year was 72 and they were in the
guardian's care for a total of 18,788 days. The cost of the
scheme last year was £939 which is a fraction of the cost of