745 Spiritual Apprach for Sick Children

Toys for Sick Children

for children kept in bed during an illness, together with a list of appropriate toys at different ages, will be welcomed by mothers and nurses and should help to solve at least one of their problems which arise at such times. It can be obtained (price 3d. post free) from the N.A.M.H. Publications Department, 39 Queen Anne Street, W.l, or direct from Children's Play Activities, 94 Wimpole Street...

Sick Children

Nursing sick children.

Paterson's Sick Children

PSYCHIATRIC SERVICE A CASE REGISTERED STUDY. By J. A. Baldwin, M.A., M.D. (Pp. xvi+ 340; graphs. £5.00). London: Oxford University Press for Nuffield Foundation, 1971. This is an important book and should be compulsory, if somewhat heavy, reading for all those involved in planning psychiatric services. The word "heavy" refers to the detailed content with many statistical tables, and not to the ...

A scoring system for sick children.

A scoring chart for sick children was designed using the vital signs of temperature, respiratory and pulse rates, and the central nervous system. The scoring chart was used on 68 sick children who had been randomly selected from a child welfare clinic in Lagos. Analyses of the charts showed that although values overlapped when related to clinical impression, there was an inverse correlation wit...