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Practical measures were taken to prevent epidemic diarrhœa
(and other diseases) in infants and young children, and to promote
hygienic conditions in their feeding and environment, as follows :-
(a) Visiting of houses wherein births were notified under the
Notification of Births Act, 1907, or wherein deaths of
children under 2 years of age were registered as having
occurred from epidemic diarrhoea or other diseases.
(b) Teaching of proper feeding and care and management of
infants at the Infants Consultations Centre connected
with the Municipal Milk Depot, 66, York Road, Westminster
Bridge Road, and at the various Voluntary
Consultations Welfare Centres, which are comprised
within the Lambeth Maternity and Child Welfare Scheme,
by the Medical Officers and Staffs attached thereto.
(c) Feeding of Infants and young children at the Municipal
Milk Depot, 66, York Road, Westminster Bridge Road,
and through the various Voluntary Welfare Centres,
in connection with the Council's Milk Assistance Scheme,
approved by the Ministry of Health, under the Maternity
and Child Welfare Acts, 1918.
(d) Issuing of special leaflets on breast feeding and artificial
feeding of infants, and of leaflets and posters during the
summer dealing with (1) precautions to be taken against
summer diarrhoea, (2) the danger of the areas of infection
and the contamination of food by flies, (3) the importance
of removing at once all accumulations of refuse and other
offensive matters from the neighbourhood of dwellings,
(4) the value of cleanliness generally, &c.
(e) Voluntary notification of cases of diarrhœa and the free
nursing of the patients as required under the Lambeth
Nursing (Infectious Diseases) Scheme.
(f) The work at the Cornwall Nursery Hostel (Prince's Road),
which is provided with observation wards for ailing infants
and young children, suffering from dietetic or nutritional
diseases.