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The importance of baby's bath,
a demonstration is conducted.
Baby's daily routine and management
is gone into in detail.
The value of breast feeding to
the baby is explained. The baby's
physical development in the early
months after birth is explained as
is the value of preventive medicine
as at present evolved, e.g. vaccination
against small-pox.
The final lecture deals with
the confinement, co-operation with
the attendant and the necessary
details of the care of the Mother
during the important few weeks
after the birth of the baby.
It is a pleasure to record the valuable
work of Health Education performed by the
Health Visitors. On the blackboards at
the clinics a note on some special topical
subject appears every month.
E. INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
For figures giving incidence of
infectious diseases as notified in Wards
and numbers removed to hospital see
Page 29.
The incidence of scarlet fever was
high throughout the year having been most
prevalent in Roe Green Ward. Seventy-one
27.