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Infant Welfare Clinics.
There are now five centres for infant welfare, ten sessions for infant
consultation being held weekly.

Dental Treatment of Children under 5 years.
During the year, 82 children under 5 years of age received completed
dental treatment.
Milk and Other Foods, etc.
During the year, 1,157 applications for assisted supplies of milk and
other foods were granted in necessitous cases and supplied free of charge.
The total quantity of milk supplied was as follows:—
Liquid milk 3,423⅛ galls.
(Supplied to applicants free of charge)
Dried milk 11,480 lbs.
Infant Life Protection.
There are no large and unsatisfactory homes where numbers of fosterchildren
are received. There have been frequent instances where
foster-mothers have failed to give prior notice of intention to take a child.
No proceedings were authorised during the year for contravention of the
law, but in every instance warning letters were sent. Special cards and
report forms are kept for foster-children, and the Health Visitors keep in
touch with all foster-mothers at least once a month.
All the Health Visitors are appointed Infant Life Protection Officers,
and the visits of supervision of foster-children are carried out by them.
The details as to registration during 1938 were:—
Number of persons who were receiving children for
reward at the end of the year 69
Number of children on register at the end of the year 96
Number of children who died during the year 7
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