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Convalescent Home Treatment.
Children.
During the year 47 children, recommended by the ClinicMedical
Officer, were sent to Convalescent Homes by the Maternity
and Child Welfare Authority through the agency of the Invalid
Children's Aid Association.
The illnesses for which convalescence was recommended
were:—
Debility (15 cases).
Scarlet fever (3 cases).
Whooping cough (3 cases).
Pneumonia (6 cases).
Bronchitis (6 cases).
Measles (2 cases).
Tonsillitis (1 case).
Fibrosis (1 case).
Catarrh (1 case).
Otitis media (1 case).
Diphtheria (1 case).
Rheumatism (1 case).
Influenza (1 case).
Otorrhœa (1 case).
Marasmus (1 case).
Recurrent styes (1 case).
Chronic rheumatism (1 case).
Anaemia (1 case).
Thirty-two of the 47 children were between the ages of two
and four years; 12 were over four years ; and 3 were under
two years.
Nursing Mothers.
Five mothers were sent away for two weeks convalesence to
"Child Haven" Hutton, near Brentwood, after they had had
their babies.