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INFANT WELFARE CENTRES
The Council's two infant welfare centres continue to be held in the Model Welfare
Centre and Maurice Hostel Club. Clinics are held daily except Saturday from 1.30
to 3.30 p.m. at the Model Welfare Centre, and on Tuesday and Thursday from
1.30 to 3.30 p.m. at the Maurice Hostel premises.
ARTIFICIAL SUNLIGHT CLINIC
Sessions for children only are held on Wednesday and Friday afternoons at the
Model Welfare Centre.
The number of children who attended for the first time was 110 and the total
attendances were 1,578. Where considered necessary the diagnosis and progress
of cases referred to this clinic for rickets is confirmed by radiological examination at
St. Leonard's Hospital, the number of X-ray examinations made during the year
being 5.
BREAST FEEDING CLINIC
This clinic is held at the Model Welfare Centre on Tuesdays and Fridays from
9 a.m. to 4.30 p.m. The number of first attendances was 238 and the total attendances
474.
Particulars of work done during the year are given below:—
Cases where breast feeding restored 42
Partial restoration of breast feeding 107
Impossible restorations 29
Number of test feeds 776
Breast treatments 79
Cases of overfeeding 28
Cases of underfeeding 107
Cases requiring regulation only 77
Cases weaned for medical reasons 1
TODDLERS' CLINIC
This clinic is held at the Model Welfare Centre on Tuesday mornings, and includes
children seeking admission to the day nurseries. The first attendances numbered 346
and the total attendances 645.
DENTAL CLINIC
The dental treatment of mothers and children referred from the Maternity
and Child Welfare clinic doctors is carried out at the Municipal Dental Hospital, the
first attendances of mothers being 636 and of children 52. The total attendances
were 1,432 mothers, 89 children.
Further particulars of treatment given to mothers and children is given in the
table on page 33.