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When not engaged in maternal and child welfare work the midwives assist in first aid work at the dispensaries.
Their work is overlooked by the Supervisor of Midwives who inspects their bags, quarters, records and investigates cases of complicated puerperium, the causes of deaths in infants and complaints preferred against them.
Ante-natal and infant welfare work is carried on at a large number of centres including the Violet Peel Health Centre at Wanchai, Government Welfare Centre in Kowloon, Alice Memorial, Military, Tsan Yuk and Tung Wah Hospitals, Chinese Public Dispensaries, six Government Dispensaries in the New Territories (with the Government Travelling Dispensary) and at nine centres under the auspices of the St. John Ambulance Association and Brigade.
At the Government centres at Kowloon and Wanchai the average daily attendances were seventy and seventy-seven respectively, the corresponding total attendances for the whole year being 23,858 and 22,339.
The average age of the infants at their first appearance at these two centres was just under three months. Rather over a quarter of those seen were artificially fed.
Six percent of the 2,062 mothers whose blood sera were examined gave a positive Wassermann reaction.
Malnutrition and digestive disturbances, many of which were attributable to malnutrition in its widest sense, accounted for the majority of the attendances of infants, although only six cases of rickets were actually diagnosed.
Respiratory diseases came second in importance followed by conjunctivitis.
Thrush was common and was met with in 551 infants at the two centres.
The soup kitchen at both centres continued to be patronised, eighty-two meals being given daily at the Wanchai Centre and half this number at Kowloon. During the summer a recipe for soya bean milk was obtained through the courtesy of Dr. Marian Yang of the Peiping First National School of Midwifery, since the cost of cow's milk is far beyond the means of the average mother of the poorer class.
This milk is made daily and has added to it certain quantities of sugar, dextrin and salt.
It is given to nursing mothers and infants who are fed at the centres. It is quite palatable and very similar to cow's milk in taste. Its content of vitamin B makes it a particularly valuable food for nursing mothers suffering from beri-beri.
The Society for the Protection of Children continued to render valuable assistance by supplying milk and artificial feeds to mothers attending the centres who were found by the Medical Officers to be too poor to afford these "luxuries".
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When not engaged in maternal and child welfare work the midwives assist in first aid work at the dispensaries.
Their work is overlooked by the Supervisor of Midwives who inspects their bags, quarters, records and investigates cases of complicated puerperium, the causes of deaths in infants and complaints preferred against them.
them. Ante-natal and infant welfare work is carried on at a large number of centres including the Violet Peel Health Centre at Wanchai, Government Welfare Centre in Kowloon, Alice Memorial, Military, Tsan Yuk and Tung Wah Hospitals, Chinese Public Dispensaries, six Govern- ment Dispensaries in the New Territories (with the Govern- ment Travelling Dispensary) and at nine centres under the auspices of the St. John Ambulance Association and Brigade. At the Government centres at Kowloon and Wanchai the average daily attendances were seventy and seventy-seven respectively, the corresponding total attendances for the whole year being 23,858 and 22,339.
The average age of the infants at their first appearance at these two centres was just under three months. Rather over a quarter of those seen were artificially fed.
Six per centuin of the 2,062 mothers whose blood sera were examined gave a positive Wassermann reaction.
Malnutrition and digestive disturbances, many of which were attributable to malnutrition in its widest sense, accounted for the majority of the attendances of infants, although only six cases of rickets were actually diagnosed.
Respiratory diseases came second in importance followed by conjunctivitis.
Thrush was common and was met with in 551 infants at the two centres. The soup kitchen at both centres continued to be patronised, eighty-two meals being given daily at the Wanchai Centre and half this number at Kowloon. During the summer a recipe for soya bean milk was obtained through the courtesy of Dr. Marian Yang of the Peiping First National School of Midwifery, since the cost of cow's milk is far beyond the means of the average mother of the poorer class.
This milk is made daily and has added to it certain quan- tities of sugar, dextrin and salt.
It is given to nursing mothers and infants who are fed at the centres. It is quite palatable and very similar to COWS milk in taste. Its content of vitamin B makes it a particularly valuable food for nursing mothers suffering from beri beri.
The Society for the Protection of Children continued to render valuable assistance by supplying milk and artificial feeds to mothers attending the centres who were found by the
Medical Officers to be too poor to afford these "luxuries"
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