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*5.—ETON MISSION (Dr. E. J. F. Moore).
Number of times Centre open 99
Number of primary cases brought to Centre 280
Repeated visits to Centre 3,788
Total attendances 4,068
Total attendances of infants under one year 3,060
Total attendances of children over one year 1,008
Dr. Moore states that in the greatest number of cases advice is
sought on account of failure of the infants to gain in weight, and
this is often due to some remedial error in feeding, the result is
satisfactory.
The cases of most difficulty are those fed artificially. Breast
feeding is encouraged, and in many instances where babies of two
or three months had been almost weaned when first brought to
the Centre, a return to entire breast feeding was effected in a few
weeks under advice of a simple nature.
Dried milk has been largely used, and with good results. The
Superintendent gives short talks to the mothers each week on
health matters.
♦ Voluntary Centre.
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