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Babies' Ailments.
Prevention of Summer Diarrhoea.
Health Exhibition.
Lessons learned from Health Week.
INFANT CONSULTATIONS.
The work of Infant Consultations has continued
on the same lines as heretofore, that is, the individual
instruction of the mother by the doctor or health visitor.
A few observations by one of the Medical Officers
will be of interest :—
" I have now been in attendance at the Friday Clinic
at Cornwall Road long enough to begin to see some results.
There are several sturdy children who first came to the
Clinic as puny babies who had been steadily going downhill,
and a number of mothers who had difficulty with a first
child and are bringing up a second successfully with very
little help. Other interesting cases are those mothers who
have been induced by the Health Visitors, after weeks of
persuasion, to come up. They are suspicious of help and
intolerant of advice at first, but most of them return again
and again, and many of them become the Centre's most
devoted adherents.
" It is a great help to know that the Health Visitors
will at once follow up any case of difficulty or illness, and
to be able to refer the mothers and children to specialist
clinics for further treatment."
Olive Potter.
MATERNITY CLINIC.
This is open every Wednesday and Thursday
morning, and there is also a special post-natal session
on the afternoon of the third Monday every month.
Particulars of attendances : —
Total.
Expectant Mothers—First visits ... 526 ),
„ „ —Subsequent visits ... 874 f '
Mothers recently confined—First visits ... 233
„ „ „ —Subsequent visits 110 (