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School Work.
cards on to the clinic charts, the dispensing of malt and oil and the
dressing and undressing of the women and children.
Eighty-eight visits have been paid to the homes of tuberculous
patients for the purpose of giving advice or obtaining information.
Infant Work.
The number of births visited by the Health Visitor is 345 and
the number of visits paid is 826.
About 80 per cent of the Infants are found to be breast fed,
but it is difficult to persuade some mothers to keep only to the
breast for eight or nine months, and for this reason the baby does
not thrive as it should. A card is left with the parent at the first
visit dealing with the " Feeding and Care of Infants," and this has
been found of great utility.
During the summer, seven "Talks to Mothers" were given in
the Technical Institute at which about thirty-five mothers attended.
Since October last, a "Talk" has been given on each Thursday
afternoon at 54 Railway Street, at which about twenty mothers
have attended, and where the babies are weighed.
Although the individual attendance of mothers has not been so
good, probably the inclement weather has been a cause, and
pressure of school work has prevented the Health Visitor from
looking up and reminding the mothers.
Leaflets have been given to the mothers on "Infantile
Diarrhoea" during the summer months, and on the feeding and
care of older members of the family.
Of the eleven deaths which occurred in infants from
Marasmus, Enteritis and Diarrhoea, in two cases no information
was obtained, and in the nine remaining cases, eight were bottlefed
babies.