Above all, the issue of bedwetting led the hygiene sub-committee to confront the question of poor housing.
It noted that bedwetting was caused by a combination of social, medical, and psychological factors, and argued that these deserved much more attention than they had received hitherto.
A bedwetting child probably costs a family more than £1,000 a year in extra washing, bedding, nightclothes and disposable nappies.
So she lives with a man whose behaviour is problematic, and with her children frightened and reverting to bedwetting.
The national bedwetting awareness week gives particular focus to those activities.
They do not want to worry if their children go through a patch of bedwetting or if their elderly relatives become incontinent— problems that 1.5 million households experience every year.
Victoria was bedwetting, which was a great nuisance to her aunt and her aunt's boy friend.
Bedwetting—or nocturnal enuresis, to use the medical term—affects half a million children between five and 16 years old—yes, as old as 16.
