Why Not Child Visitors?

Abstract

EDITORIAL SYNOPSIS The results of a survey of obstetrical patients in Adelaide has shown that there are advantages in permitting children to visit their mothers in hospital. The absence of any undesirable effects might well support the extension of this permission.

Chronic Disease in Childhood: a Study of Family Reactions

“…Observations were also made about the place of visiting by siblings in children's wards and a comparison was made between one hospital where this was encouraged and others where there was no such practice. The students considered that there were fewer disruptions in a family when visiting was permitted and that no abuses of the practice occurred (Craven, 1967).…”

Mothers of premature babies.

“…Leading Articles MEDICALTJOISNAL in his full series of 66 biopsy specimens included cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis (27), sarcoidosis (15), eosinophilic granuloma (5), and malignant disease (4); the diagnosis was not established in a further 8. He concludes by mentioning that recent advances in chest medicine, due in part to knowledge gained from lung biopsies, are such that the nature of diffuse lung disease in individual patients can now usually be deduced from other and less traumatic methods of investigation and that in future biopsy is likely to be used even less often than it is at present.…”