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The next Table, No. 74, shows the number of children and
the number of attendances made by them during the year.
The attendances at the welfare centres during 1928 were more
than in the previous year. It will be noted from this Table
that the vast majority of attendances are made by children
under the age of eighteen months. After that age is reached
there is a marked falling off in the number of attendances.
Mothers find difficulties in bringing toddlers to the centres,
and there appears to be little doubt that, if the toddler is to be
supervised, some method of periodical medical examination,
on similar lines to school medical examinations, should be
instituted.