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Special Clinic for Delicate Children.
Report for 1933.
The sunny summer of 1933 undoubtedly effected an
improvement in the appearance of the children, and it seems
legitimate to suppose also in their general health. Mothers,
getting accustomed to the long continuance of good weather,
in many cases reduced the children's clothing to a minimum
during the heat of the day, with marked benefit to their health.
It was usual to see young children at the clinic wearing a
bathing dress only, which incidentally by reducing their laundry
work was a boon to the mothers also.
During the past year the majority of children sent to the
clinic by other medical officers have been toddlers, with only
a small proportion of young infants. Whether this is an
indication of the relatively better health of infants, it is not
possible to say—but this would seem the probable deduction.
Also the wide use of dried milk, together with the appropriate
measure supplied by the makers, makes for accuracy in
carrying out the doctor's directions as regards feeding, thus
diminishing the number of babies suffering from serious
underfeeding.
The number of children who have attended is set out
below:—
No. of Sessions 48
New Cases 34} Total
Subsequent attendances 251} attendance 285
Consultations 284}
H. M. M. Mackay, M.D.
DENTAL CLINIC.
Two sessions per week are held in connection with
the Dental Clinic, one conducted by Miss J. H. M.
Sutherland, L.D.S.(R.C.S.) and the other by Mr. F.
Reginald Bate, L.D.S.(R.C.S.).
Miss Sutherland reports on her work during the
year as follows:—
Sessions held 46 of which 12 were Gas Sessions.
Total. Children. Mothers.
New cases 175 92 83
Subsequent attendances, including
cases brought forward from
1932 323 87 236
Total 498 179 319