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At the clinics special attention is paid to the education of
mothers, individual instruction is given in general hygiene of
childhood, correct methods of feeding and management of children.
Mothers are encouraged to bring their children for periodical
medical examination so that defects and incipient diseases can be
treated in the early stages.
Toddlers' Clinic.
Clinics for the examination of " Toddlers "—children between
the ages of two and five years—are held on Monday and Wednesday
mornings and on alternate Tuesday afternoons. During 1933,
917 examinations were made. In cases where defects were found,
the patients were transferred to the appropriate Specialist Service.
A record of cases examined is transferred to the School
Medical Service when the children enter school.
Immunisation Clinic.
The Immunisation Clinics of the Maternity and Child Welfare
Service was continued throughout 1934. Forty sessions were held
and 692 inoculations were made. 240 children were thus afforded
protection by this means.
The majority of children attending were given three injections
of immunising fluid, and 199 cases were thus fully protected.
Thirty-three additional attendances were made by 11 cases who
showed some reaction to the initial doses, and who consequently
received a longer course of smaller injections. In addition, 30
children, whose immunisation was not complete during the year,
received 39 injections.
164 Schick tests were performed, and these cases attended
once again for reading.
Four cases were found to be still Schick positive after a
normal immunisation course; they were given a second course of
injections, and after testing, proved Schick negative.
Tonsils and Adenoids.
During 1933, 171 children received operative treatment, as
compared with 207 in 1932.