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midst of a beautiful and historic park; and such opportunity is afforded
lor expansion of the work as was not to be found in the temporary
Centre in High Road.
The close association of the School Centres with the Maternity,
and Child Welfare Centre is in anticipation of a welding together of
the two schemes—a conjunction that is already overdue.
TOWN HALL CENTRE.—A third Centre is established at
the School Clinic at the rear of the Town Hall, where on Wednesday,
afternoons, babies are weighed.
At all Centres dried milk is sold at, approximately, cost price,
and at the two main Centres—" The Chestnuts,' St. Ann's Road, and
Bruce Casde—simple drugs, Petroleum Emulsion, Marylebone Emulsion,
Cod Liver Oil and Malt, Parrish's Syrup, Virol, feeding bottles
and fittings of approved pattern and—when permission is granted by the
Central Authority—extra rations of sugar for hand-fed children. For
ante and post natal purposes bandages of different types, belts and
instruments are provided. Maternity bags are supplied on loan to
necessitous mothers, and to those in better circumstances, instruction
is given upon the preparation of the Layette.
Samples of ideal clothing for older children are shown anci
assistance is afforded at a knitting and sewing class held on Wednesday
afternoons in the making of garments for young children.
At this class the Health Visitor in attendance gives "health talks"
to the mothers on the hygiene of the mother and the child.
Necessitous mothers are supplied with a substantial mid-day meal,
and for those of limited means, arrangements are made with local
dairymen to provide milk in accordance with the Milk (Mother and
Children) Order, 1918.