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Antenatal Clinic.
This clinic has continued to meet once weekly. The total
number of expectant mothers attending was 247. The average
weekly attendance was 12. The mothers are principally sent to the
clinic through the maternity and infant centres and the maternity
hostel. The larger proportion of the cases are subsequently confined
in the maternity hostel. Cases of venereal disease are sent
for treatment to one of the clinics for these conditions. A considerable
amount of antenatal advice is given in the routine work of the
maternity and infant centres.
Sick Nursery.
The sick nursery has been continued as in former years. The
disadvantageous conditions set out last year as attaching to these
premises still hold so that this very valuable piece of work—one of
the most important adjuncts of the infant work of the town—continues
to be seriously hampered. We urgently require greatly
extended and improved accommodation for this type of ailing
child. Below are given the statistics for the nursery for 1919.
Sick Nursery, 228, London Road.
Number of Cases at Nursery at end of 1918 6
Number admitted during 1919 33
Number discharged during 1919 33
Number died during 1919 2
Number remaining at end of 1919 4
METHOD OF FEEDING.
The following are the particulars as to feeding of infants
during the first six months of life of children who survived, and of
children who died between one week and six months old. Deaths
of infants under one week have been excluded because it is unlikely
that methods of feeding can have been responsible for a fatal issue
in so short a time.