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9. If the baby shows any signs of Indigestion or
Diarrhoea, no milk should be given for 24 hours,
but a little plain barley or rice water instead;
if the Diarrhoea then continues medical advice
should be at once obtained.
10 Diarrhoea is somewhat infectious. The diapers
of a diarrhœic child should be rinsed in water
at once and boiled before being used again.
MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE.
In view of the substantial grants promised by the
Government this subject has taken on an added importance.
The present activities of the Public Health Department
in this matter are shown from the items of expenditure for
the six months ending September 30th, 1914, as embodied
in the claim for grant made by the Council to the Local
Government Board.
£ s. d.
Part salary of Health Visitor 14 3 4
Clerical Expenses 8 o o
Proportion of Rent, Rates and Taxes 1 2 4
Heating, Lighting and Cleaning o 9 2
Postages 128
Printing and Advertising 4 12 o
Provision of Bicycle for Health Visitor on 8
Maintenance in Isolation Hospital for
one case of Puerperal Fever for 2J
weeks at 30s. per week 3 15 o
Maintenance in Isolation Hospital of a
case of Ophthalmia Neonatorum
(mother and child), 2½ weeks at 42s.
per week 5 5 o
The question of enlarging the present scheme of
maternity and child welfare was under the consideration of
the Council at the end of the year, but no decision had been
reached.