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or four feet by two or three feet. Find an artist on your staff or
amongst the voluntary workers. Explain what you want, carefully,
thus:—
Diagram 1. Paint in top half of diagram typical English lady
doctor in white coat with left hand on shoulder of artisan's wife and
right hand pointing to portrait of baby on wall. Expectant mother
looks happily at baby's portrait.
Words below :—Supervision at ante-natal centre before baby is
born ensures safe and easy confinement and a healthy and vigorous
baby. (Give address and days and hours of ante-natal centre.)
Diagram 2. Painting of fine baby boy about one year old.
Print below :—Since the ante-natal centre commenced work there
have been fewer miscarriages, fewer still births, fewer deaths of
recently born babies. New born babies are healthier and weigh more.
More mothers can breast feed their babies.
Diagram 3. Painting of sturdy 18 months baby, standing, laughing
and pushing chair.
Print:-The ante-natal centre gives babies a splendid " push-off"
in life.
Diagram 4. Painting of curly-headed baby in bath.
Print:—A warm bath carries off waste products of the body, keeps
the skin clean and tones up the nervous system. Give bath with
screen protection to avoid draughts. Give before eating and not before
going out. Use clean soft water, pure unscented soap. Dry gently
and thoroughly.
Diagram 5. Painting of doctor dropping solution into new-born
baby's eyes.
Print below:—Blindness in thousands of babies is prevented by
dropping in solution of silver salts into the eyes as soon as baby is
born. Insist upon this when engaging a doctor for confinement.
These diagrams can make a striking display at the ante-natal stall
at every health exhibition. Our neo-natal mortality rate is regrettable
and is almost stationary, whereas the general infant mortality rate is
falling steadily.
Purchase or hire cartoons, charts, etc., on "Flies," all about
"Consumption" and "Smallpox" from the Editor of The Medical
Officer, 36 Whitefriars Street, off Fleet Street, London, E.C. The
safeguard of vaccination is strongly brought home, and the causes and
treatment of Tuberculosis can be grasped by the simplest from the