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to the Council's directions to avoid the use of trade
names, are sold to the mothers:—
Dried Milk 14,701 pkts.
Condensed Milk 28 tins.
HYGIENIC CLOTHING.
Within our limited resources, a good deal of useful
work is being done in the education of the mothers in the
use of modern hygienic clothing for themselves and their
children, and there is a ready sale for good models of
garments at the Centres. Drapers and baby outfitters
are less progressive than one would wish and cotton
long clothes and other unsuitable clothing are their
common stock-in-trade. Young mothers wishing to do
their best for their children on a limited income are
therefore glad of the Council's assistance. The model
garments recommended by the Central Council for Child
Welfare which are exhibited at the Centre are eagerly
copied by such mothers and there is no doubt that the
Council s educational work in this respect is doing much
to raise the standard in young children's clothing.
SPECIAL CLINIC FOR DELICATE CHILDREN.
Since 1925, a Special Consultation Clinic for
Delicate Children has been in operation at the Centre,
conducted by Dr. Helen M. M. Mackay, M.D.;
M.R.C.P. Medical Officers at the Infant Consultations
observing children whose conditions require special
investigation, or on whom they desire a second opinion,
refer such children to the Special Clinic. A feature of
the work of the Clinic is artificial light treatment by
means of a quartz mercury vapour lamp.
Dr. Mackay reports on the work of the year as
follows:—
It is becoming mote widely recognised by the public
that a very large part of the illness occurring in childhood
owes its origin directly or indirectly to a failure to supply
the needs of the body, and as mothers learn to appreciate
the fact that insufficient sleep, insufficient outdoor life and