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Morning Clinics.
Special cases are seen at the White House Centre in the
morning by appointment from the Clinics or in the course of home
visiting by the Health Visitors, e.g., infants whose conditions require
careful investigation by means of test feeds, children suffering
from skin or other infective conditions who cannot suitably
attend at the ordinary Clinics, and whose mothers require advice
regarding feeding, etc., and other similar cases.
It has been proved to many mothers by these test feeds that
they are able to continue to feed the baby on the breast only—a
fact which has an enormous psychological effect on the supply of
milk and on the present and future health of the child.
Number of cases seen in the morning 1,556
Health Visiting.
Visiting in the homes of infants and children under school
age is the most important work of the Health Visitors, as so
many of the mothers cannot, and in many cases will not, bring
their babies to the Clinics.
Infants are visited as soon after the fourteenth day as possible,
and the mothers are helped in the many difficulties which
arise in connection with the hygiene and feeding of infants and
young children. Other visits include those to expectant mothers,
to cases of Ophthalmia Neonatorum and other special visits.
The visits of the Health Visitors are spread over the cases as
evenly as possible, but necessarily a larger number of visits are
made to premature and delicate infants than to healthy children,