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The total number of attendances at the six infant welfare
centres was 11,115 as compared with 9,833 in 1935 and 9,058 in
1934. Of these 929 were new cases, 712 being infants under one
year of age, and 217 being children over one but under five years
of age. The tooal number of attendances of infants under one year
of age was 7,382, and of children between one and five years of age
3,733.
At the end of the year there were 578 infants under one year
and 1,000 children between one and five years attending the centres.

giving an average for all centres of 53.3, as compared with 50 in
1935 and 46 in 1934.
The percentage of infants under one year of age attending the
centres was 73 per cent, of the total number of notified births, that
is, nearly three-quarters of the total number of notified births. This
is a very high proportion. In 1935 this percentage was 66, in 1934
it was 61.3.
Supply of Food and Medicine.
Packets of dried food, cod liver oil, cod liver oil emulsion, Virol.
Brestol, and Parrish's Food were sold at the centres, and in necessitous
cases were supplied free. Arrangements were such that
necessitous children needing dried food other than that supplied at
the clinics could obtain this free.
Grants of free milk were made where necessary, applications
for this help being considered each month by the Maternity and
Child Welfare Committee. No necessitous case, however, is kept
waiting until the Committee sits, each case being considered and
the order given by a certificate from the Medical Officer pending the
decision of the Committee.