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Child Health Centres
The demand for these facilities which comprise education of parents,
assessment supervision and immunisation of children, was unchanged.
There were fewer attendances of children born in 1968 but the requests for
more toddler sessions could not be met in full, owing to financial restrictions.
For detailed figures see Appendix page 110.
Welfare Foods and Medicaments
The policy of restricting sales at Child Health Centres to National
dried milk and Ministry of Food vitamin preparations was relaxed to include
a vitamin A and D concentrate. Many mothers said their infants
would accept only this form of A & D supplement, and could not be persuaded
to take cod liver oil. Most of the former objectionable taste has
been removed from the cod liver oil now available, and prejudice relates
probably more to parents than to children. The dangers from lack of vitamins
A & D are too real to permit any excuse for their being withheld,
and with the agreement of the local Pharmaceutical Committee a clinic
pack of A & D concentrate is now sold.
Issue of Welfare Foods in 1968:-
National Dried Milk 36,019
Cod Liver Oil 6,019
Vitamin A and D Tablets 6,857
Orange Juice 106,459
For detailed figures see Appendix page 105.