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11. The lying-in period and the preparation for it.
12. The care of the breasts while suckling.
13. Minor ailments of pregnancy.
14. Diarrhœa in babies—its causes, prevention, and treatment.
15. Rickets and its prevention.
16. Measles and its complications.
Demonstrations have been given as follows: —
1. How to bath a baby.
2. How to dress a baby.
3. How to prepare baby's food.
4. Feeding bottles—the advantages and disadvantages of
certain types.
5. How to make baby's clothes.
6. A cheap form of cot for baby.
7. How to make barley water.
8. How to make a poultice.
9. Simple bandaging.
10. Pneumonia jackets—how to make and use them.
11. The treatment of thrush in infants.
12. The treatment of sore, cracked, and depressed teats.
At each meeting tea and buns are provided at cost price to
those who can pay—gratis to those who are too poor. It is
found that the mothers cease attending for one of two reasons—
either because they have to return to work, and are therefore
unable to afford the time, or because the babies do so well
that they think there is no further need for supervision. In
these latter cases the mothers come again when the babies begin
to waste. One mother stopped coming because she had no boots
to enable her to go out of doors.