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# ANTE-NATAL AND INFANT WELFARE WORK
223. The ante-natal and infant welfare centres in the Colony are:
The Government Infant Welfare Centre, Wanchai.
The Government Infant Welfare Centre, Kowloon.
The Tsan Yuk Hospital Centre.
The Tung Wah Hospital Centre.
The Alice Memorial Hospital Centre.
The Military Centre.
226. Infants are of course seen and treated at all hospitals both as inpatients and outpatients and at all the Chinese Public Dispensaries.
227. With regard to the New Territories, Government has made provision for infant welfare at the Government Dispensaries. The Government Travelling Dispensary which stops at road-side villages dispenses advice and medicines free. Two new Government Centres were opened during the year, one the Lady Ho Tung Welfare Centre near Ko Tung, the other the Ruttonjee Dispensary at Sham Tseng.
228. The St. John Ambulance Brigade have established ten centres in the New Territories where infants and mothers can receive treatment.
## THE GOVERNMENT INFANT WELFARE CENTRES
229. Infant welfare work was continued throughout the year in the Centre at 86A & B, Lockhart Road, Wanchai, where there has been a great increase in attendance. It was mentioned in the last annual report that the premises were too small for the numbers attending, and the further large increase in attendance has resulted in the work of this centre being hampered by overcrowding. It is expected, however, that the more spacious quarters in the new Health Centre, now in course of erection in Wanchai, will remedy this.
230. During the year under review Infant Welfare Work was extended to the mainland by establishing a Centre in Kowloon. This new centre was opened on June 1st, and the numbers already attending show the need for infant welfare work in the district. Situated on the ground floor of 225, Nathan Road, the premises were originally intended for a residential flat. They were altered as far as possible to meet the requirements of a Centre, and now consist of a waiting-room, bathing and weighing room, treatment and nursery room, dispensary, patients' latrines, staff dressing room, kitchen and servant's quarters.
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ANTE-NATAL AND INFANT WELFARE WORK.
223. The ante-nata! and infant welfare centres in the Colony
The Government Infant Welfare Centre, Wanchai.
The Government Infant Welfare Centre, Kowloon.
The Tsan Yuk Hospital Centre.
The Tung Wah Hospital Centre.
The Alice Memorial Hospital Centre.
The Military Centre.
226. Infants are of course seen and treated at all hospitals both as inpatients and outpatients and at all the Chinese Public Dispensaries.
227. With regard to the New Territories, Government has made provision for infant welfare at the Government Dispen- saries. The Government Travelling Dispensary which stops at road-side villages dispenses advice and medicines free. Two new Government Centres were opened during the year, one the Lady Ho Tung Welfare Centre near Ko Tung, the other the Ruttonjee Dispensary at Sham Tseng.
228. The St. John Ambulance Brigade have established ten centres in the New Territories where infants and mothers can receive treatment.
THE GOVERNMENT INFANT WELFARE CENTRES.
229. Infant welfare work was continued throughout the year in the Centre at 86A & B, Lockhart Road, Wanchai, where there has been a great increase in attendance. It was mentioned in the last annual report that the premises were too small for the numbers attending, and the further large increase in attend- ance has resulted in the work of this centre being hampered by overcrowding. It is expected, however, that the more spacious quarters in the new Health Centre, now in course of erection in Wanchai, will remedy this.
230. During the year under review Infant Welfare Work was extended to the mainland by establishing a Centre in Kowloon. This new centre was opened on June 1st, and the numbers already attending show the need for infant welfare work in the district. Situated on the ground floor of 225, Nathan Road, the premises were originally intended for a residential flat. They were altered as far as possible to meet the requirements of a Centre, and now consist of a waiting-room, bathing and weigh- ing room, treatment and nursery room, dispensary, patients' latrines, staff dressing room, kitchen and servant's quarters.
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