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(2) Maternity and Child Welfare Services.
(a) Education.
Sir George Newman in a speech many years ago
stressed how advancements in public health always
lagged a generation behind great advancements in
education.
This must of necessity be so in a country where the
growth and development of social services is more
than gradual and where the young generation demand
services before they are ultimately developed.
I wish to express my high appreciation of the way
in which children of yesterday have been educated
to avail themselves of the services provided today and
what I can see of the schools of today leads me
forward to tomorrow with every confidence so far as
further developments in our services are concerned.
(b) Ante-Natal and Post-Natal Supervision.
There has been a decrease in the number of
attendances at your Ante-Natal, Post-Natal and
Gynaecological Clinics, and the reason for this
decrease, I feel sure, will be well recognised in view
of the abnormal circumstances prevailing during the
last six months of the year 1944.