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OTHER SERVICES.
Artificial Sunlight and Massage.
The arrangement described in the previous year's report
remained throughout 1938.
In the following table is incorporated the numbers treated
and the conditions for which the persons were treated:—
Children under 1 year 22
Children between 1 and 5 years 107
Mothers 1
Total 130
Debility 29
Rickets 32
Incipient Rickets 4
Delayed Dentition 20
No gain in weight 1
Glands in neck 2
Anaemia 7
Chronic Bronchitis 3
Malnutrition 6
Debility following —
Pertussis 3
Pneumonia 1
Diphtheria 1
Knock knees 2
Bow legs 8
Massage after fracture 1
Torticollis 2
Hypotonia 7
Foot deformity 2
Spondylitis 1
Maternity Outfits.
During the year 126 maternity outfits were supplied.
Convalescent Home Treatment.
For 23 cases convalescent home treatment was arranged,
concerning whom the Council accepted responsibility for payment
in whole or in part according to the economic circumstances
of the family. Five mothers with 7 children, and 11
children unaccompanied were sent during the year. There has
been some difficulty in placing mothers with children requiring
this treatment, while also the number of homes able to accept
very young children is limited. No case is sent to a home without
the Department having received the observations of the
Medical Officer of Health of the area in which a likely home is
situated.
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