ABSTRACT
It fell to the lot of the authors to playa part in a wartime scheme that grew up in a certain county in Britain around the problems presented by children evacuated from London and other big cities. It is well known that a proportion of evacuated children failed to settle in the ir billets; and that whereas some of those went back home to the air-raids, many of them stayed on and were a nuisance unless given special conditions of management. As visiting psychiatrist and resident psychiatric social worker, we fanned a small psychiatric team employed to make a scheme of this kind work in OUf county. Our job was to see that the available resources were actually brought to bear on the problems that arose: one of us (O.W.W.), as a paediatrician and child psychiatrist whose main work had been in London, was able to relate such problems as were specifically related to the war situation to the corresponding problems of peacetime experience.
