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4. Nursing assistance;
5. Provision of milk and other foods to necessitous mothers and
children.
1.—HEALTH VISITING.
The following tables (pages 79 and 80) give details of the visits
made by the Health Visitors during the year.

2.—INFANT CONSULTATION AND ANTE-NATAL CLINICS.
Part-time (temporary, i.e., not on the permanent staff) Medical
Officers have been appointed to conduct the work of the consultation
centres, the duties of medical officers having been arranged as
follows:—
1. Attend the centre on each session.
2. To examine all infants brought to the centre, of parents
living in the Borough.
3. To advise the parents as to the feeding and care of their
infants.
4. Treat minor ailments in the infant when circumstances
indicate the need for this.
5. To enter on a case paper to be provided for each infant,
certain particulars, with notes on advice and treatment given,
and the condition and progress of the infant.
6. To furnish monthly, a return to the Medical Officer of Health
as to the number of infants seen and treated at the centre.
N.B. If the ailment of the infant is such as to necessitate continuous
medical supervision and treatment, the medical officer must refer
the case either to the usual medical attendant or to a hospital for
children, such as the Queen's Hospital for Children, Hackney
Road. The centre is not intended or fitted to take the place either
of the general practitioner or the out-patient department of the
hospitals.