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FEEDING.
Wards.
Breast
Feeding.
Mixed
Feeding.
Hand
Feeding
Totals.
East
469
34
16
519
North
366
38
21
425
North-West
251
24
17
292
South
43
6
6
55
South-East
131
12
23
166
South-West
112
8
8
128
1372
122
91
1585
Infant Consultations.
I am pleased to inform you that we have commenced infant
consultations and classes for mothers at the Town Hall on
Thursday afternoons and at the Albany Institute on Monday
afternoons. At the Town Hall during the last ten weeks of
the year there were 80 attendances making an average number
of 10 each afternoon. At the Albany Institute there is an
average attendance of about 80 mothers and during the last
eight weeks of the year 131 mothers had their babies weighed
and received advice from the nurse and doctor making 16 as
an average number of consultations each afternoon.
The work done at these consultations is now well known,
and the number of attendances is increasing.
The Natural Feeding of Infants.
It is hardly sufficiently realised that the artificial feeding of
infants has only been extensively practised within quite recent
times and that the feeding bottle was introduced within the
memory of the present generation. Whether we shall ever
return to the habits of the pre-feeding bottle days or not it is
difficult to say. If we do not it will not be for want of serious