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weighing of the infants. Records of the weights were kept.
From 3.30 to 4 p.m. an address was given to the girls by the health
visitor. (See syllabus of lectures on Infant Care in Appendix in
addition to these addresses the Medical Officer spoke to he girls as
time permitted on simple health precautions and matters of interest
connected with them. A point was made of having the infants'
parents present during the addresses to the girls, and they were
thus in an indirect manner interested in and instructed on many
useful matters. Instructions in clothing the babies were rendered
practical by means of a doll model.
During the year 1914 26 babies were brought to the consultations
for demonstration purposes.
It may be thought that the number of infants attending is very
small, but it should be remembered that the primary object of the
class is to educate the senior girls concerning infants and infant
life—not in this instance to combat any special infantile condition
in the district.
LECTURES.
During the winter of 1914-1915 I organised a series of lectures
which was delivered in the evenings in selected schools in the
Borough by the medical staff and by two of the Health Visitors.
These lectures are devised to cover the general field of public
health medical work in its broadest sense, inclusive of medical
questions affecting school children. The cost of the lectures was
defrayed by the local authority and the Insurance Committee
jointly, but it is of interest to mention this here as the lectures are
of very great educational value, and as they also have been
delivered in premises belonging to the Education Authority. It
will be observed from the list that the lectures were distributed as
evenly as possible throughout the town, so that every part of the
community might be within reasonable access of at least one of
the lectures.
The following is a list of the subjects lectured upon and the
dates upon which the lectures were given, viz.:—
Date. School. Subject.
Nov. 24 Mitcham Road "The War against Consumption."
Dec. 8 Portland Road "Tuberculosis in School Children."
Jan. 14 Brighton Road "The War against Consumption."
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26 Woodside "The Child: Its Ear, Nose & Throat."
Feb. 2 Sydenham Road "The Care of the School Child."
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9 Ecclesbourne Road "Tuberculosis in School Children."
„ 25 Beulah Road " The War against Consumption."
Mch. 2 South Norwood "The Care of Infants."
„ 16 Winterbourne Road "The Child : Its Bodily Growth and
Development."
„ 25 Upper Norwood "The War against Consumption."