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Practical Demonstrations.
1. How to undress and bath a baby.
2. How to dress a baby. Shortening. Binders.
3. How to prepare baby's food. Milk storage.
4. Feeding bottles—the advantages and disadvantages of
certain types. How to clean them, and their care between
feeding times.
5. How to make baby's clothes. Model clothes. Patterns.
6. A cheap cot made from a banana crate or orange box.
7. How to make a poultice.
8. Simple bandaging.
9. Pneumonia jackets—how to make them.
10. The treatment of thrush in infants.
11. The treatment of sore, cracked, and depressed teats.
12. How to make whey.
13. How to make a fomentation.
14. Methods of preparing milk.
15. How to prepare meat juice.
16. The treatment of burns and scalds.
17. How to prepare rice water.
18. The care of the buttocks, and the correct way of washing
napkins.
l9. Soaps. Fatted and super-fatted. Disinfecting soaps.
Soaps suitable for babies. Hard and soft water.
20. How to use the "Baby's Book." Distribute copies.
21. The Inspection of the feeding bottles actually used by the
mothers, and comments upon their condition.
At each meeting, tea and buns are provided at a charge of a
penny each to those who can pay—gratis to those who are too
poor.