Volume 1

Fit for the future : report of the Committee on Child Health Services / chairman, S.D.M. Court.

  • Great Britain. Committee on Child Health Services.
Date:
1976
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Licence: Open Government Licence

Credit: Fit for the future : report of the Committee on Child Health Services / chairman, S.D.M. Court. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Infant life wastage (still-birth and deaths under 1 year), 1973 England—28.2 Rates per thousand total births High NEWCASTLE MANCHESTER :: B15 pace oe Low LIVERPOOL Osa e «2 0 @e he wie 4 ~ts tees & ee - + +| METROPOLITAN 25.9 wo bare a 4) are tome sore nevevee Ch SS a acialn Ceres a Uae rererE Ss pay Lams 28 oe Ore Rave ~:::/4 Rate per thousand total births for GLC is 27.5 Subdivisions of England are hospital regions services which have grown in an uncoordinated manner; they are conse- quently patchy and vary both in quality and coverage. Some of the most depressing evidence we have received concerned handi- capped children both at home and in hospital. The mother of a handicapped child talks about her early experiences: (*) she felt from the start that B, her second child, would be abnormal in some way. He was a quiet, good baby . . . so good, he never moved. When she compared him to her first, the health visitor reassured her; he’s just backward, it’ll be all right. She took him to the local clinic but “as soon as the weight is o.k. they don’t think any more’’—and she just had to keep to herself her knowledge, now more than a fear, that she had a backward (*) Fox, M (1975). They get this training but they don’t really know how you feel. National Fund for Research into Crippling Diseases.