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2.-INFANT CONSULTATION AND ANTE-N ATALCUN1CS.
Part-time (temporary, i.e., not on the permanent staff)
Medical Officers have been appointed to conduct the work of the
consultation centres, the duties of medical officers having been
arranged as follows:—
1. Attend the centre one afternoon per week.
2. To examine all infants brought to the centre, of
parents living in the Borough.
3. To advise the parents as to the feeding and care of
their infants.
4. Treat minor ailments in the infant when circumstances
indicate the need for this.
5. To enter on a case paper to be provided for each
infant, certain particulars, with notes on advice and treatment
given, and the condition and progress of the infant.
6. To furnish monthly, a return to the Medical Officer of
Health as to the number of infants seen and treated at the
centre.
N.B.—If the ailment of the infants is such as to necessitate continuous
medical supervision and treatment, the medical officer
must refer the case either to the usual medical attendant or
to a hospital for children, such as the Queen's Hospital for
Children, Hackney Road. The centre is not intended or fitted
to take the place either of the general practitioner or the outpatient
department of the hospitals.