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Supply of Food and Medicines
Dried milk, cod liver oil emulsion, Virol, Parrish's Food,
groats, Bemax, Farex, iron pills, Lactagol, etc., were sold at the
centres, and in necessitous cases supplied free. Arrangements
were such that necessitous children needing dried food other than
that supplied at the clinics may obtain this free.
Liquid or National Dried Milk is supplied free in necessitous
cases on application to the local Food Office.
Vitamins are supplied to expectant mothers and children
under two years of age at Welfare Centres, the Food Office and
at the Public Health Department.
Arrangements are available for necessitous nursing and
expectant mothers to receive free meals.
Ante-Natal Clinics
Three ante-natal clinics are held each week at Church Road
Clinic and three clinics each week in connection with Woodlands
Maternity Home are held at the Cavendish Road Clinic.
The midwives' hold clinics for cases booked by them on each
Tuesday at Church Road Clinic and Cavendish Road Clinic, also
each Wednesday at Sherwood House.

One thousand one hundred and forty-seven expectant mothers
attended the ante>-natal centres as against 1,405 total registered
births.
General Remarks
The clinics were reserved, as in previous years, for those cases
entering Woodlands, hospital, or who were to be confined in their