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are referred to their family doctor or a Hospital, but many
with minor ailments are provisionally treated at the Centre.
Sodium citrate, grey powder, malt extract, cod liver oil, and
dried milk are sold at cost price, or given in necessitous cases.
While the work at the Centre is of instructive value, and
calls for every encouragement and effort, it is supplementary
to what is nevertheless the most important part of infant
welfare work from a preventive point of view. This lies of
necessity in the homes, in the continuous supervision of the
infants' domestic environment, and clearly the work of the
Health Visitors should be largely in the poorer districts and
streets. This matter is being revised.
MATERNITY AND INFANT WELFARE CENTRE.
Summary of Infant Welfare Work for 1925.
(Miss Boyd and Miss Stanbridge.)
Number of Infants Notified—
Males 205
Females 160
Number or Illegitimate Infants Notified 9
Number of Still-births Notified 4
Number of Visits paid to—
Infants (1st) 380
Children (1st) 1,672
Re-visits—
Infants 680
Children 2,374
Ineffectual Calls 687