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Newspaper
Manilla Express
Location
Manilla, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Jul 17, 1942
Page
3
Ab Frank Lee of Commonwealth Bank staff on annual holidays. Manilla Baby Health Centre report shows no new enrollments, 61 babies weighed, 5 tests given. Attendance totals include 54 infants under 1 year, 6 under 2, 2 under 3, with a daily average of 16.5 attendees.
The article traces the growth of Baby Health Centres in New South Wales from a 1914 Alexandria start to a state-wide network of 220 centres serving over 852,000 mother visits and 83,000 babies last year. It notes infant deaths halved since 1914 and gastroenteritis largely wiped out, attributing gains to mothercraft education delivered by trained staff and the text Our Babies, available free via centres or the Health Department in Sydney.
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