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Advice, Instruction, and Information.
1.—Medical advice can be obtained by a mother from her private Doctor, or
at the various provident dispensaries, hospitals, or other public medical
charities, according to her means.
2.—Instruction in motherhood may be obtained, and babies may be weighed
at the " Mothers' and Babies' Welcome," 37, Chalton Street, Euston Road, N.W.
3.—Information in reference to health visitors, and the home instruction of
Mothers and advice as to mothering, suckling, and weaning, may be obtained
from the Women Inspectors, to whom messages may be addressed, at the
Public Health Department, Town Hall, Pancras Road, N.W.
John F. J. Sykks,
Medical Officer of Health.
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Special Spring and Summer Notice.
Babies born after the beginning of April should continue to be Soi.ei.y
Brkast-Fkd until the end of September at least, otherwise they run a serious
risk during the hot weather of dying from Diarrhoea.
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Winter Notice.
Tough, Bronchitis, Pneumonia, and other Chest complaints of Babies are
best prevented by clothing the Baby with a long-sleeved woollen undervest,
and when out of doors by well covering the neck, arms, and legs.
THE ST. PANCRAS SCHOOL OF MOTIIERCRAFT.
The School for Mothers established by the St. Pancras Mothers'and Infants'
Society in Somers Town in the Spring of 1907 has now been in existence three
years, and has fully justified its existence in excellently supplementing and
carrying to a logical conclusion the principle of instructing and helping the
mother as the agent for the prevention of infantile mortality.
At the Institution known as the "Welcome" at 37, Chalton Street, Euston
Road, N.W., a series of activities in "mothercraft" are energetically carried
on, much to the benefit of the newly-born and the young, who when neglected
at an early age arc so prone to become physically unfit. It is commencing
the prevention of physical deterioration at an earlier age even than the
medical inspection of school children.
The municipal and philanthropic scheme under the guidance of the Medical
Officer of Health and a Woman Sanitary Inspector works on the following
lines:—