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Sale of Glaxo to children under 12 months, Ambrosia and Virol to
children over 1 year.
Sale of Clothes.— Insurance for Doctor at Confinement.—
Organized Play with Toddlers. —War Savings
Association.—Loan of Books.
In connection with the sale of clothes especial efforts have
been made to persuade mothers to provide their babies with knitted
woollen belts (as soon as the umbilicus has healed) instead of
binders, also to provide knitted woollen vests. Directions for making
these articles have been cyclostyled in the Health Office and
distributed at the Welcome and elsewhere; both the voluntary
workers and the Health Visitors have endeavoured to make or get
made as many of these garments as possible to be sold at the cost
of the wool and postage.
Dr. J. E. Adam conducted the weekly consultations up till
April 15th; since then the Medical Officer of Health has attended
weekly to hold the Infant Consultations. He is assisted by the two
Health Visitors, who also make themselves generally useful at the
Welcome where their advice is much appreciated by the mothers.
The Health Visitors also take part in the giving of more formal
instruction to the mothers in the form of lectures, &c.
A special feature has been the careful supervision of ailing
babies not sufficiently ill to be sent to the Maternity and Child
Welfare Department of the Richmond Royal Hospital. During the
year 24 babies have been seen more or less weekly, either at the
Welcome or in the home; this is a necessity in these cases if the
baby is to be kept under the regular supervision required to do any
real good.
The arrangement whereby sick babies whose parents are not
able to afford a private doctor, but on the presentation of a card
from the Medical Officer of Health are enabled to receive attention
at the local hospital, has worked well and proved of real service.
Leaflets have been drawn up by the Medical Officer of Health