Mobile Child Clinic
p. 12 · Read in the full issue
In Fiji
A MOBILE Child Welfare Clinic, ini tiated in 1942, is doing excellent work among babies of Fiji. The number of patients treated during 1943 was 971, while the figure for the first six months of 1944 was 3,585.
The clinic covers the districts of Suva and Rewa, and patrols an area of sixty miles on each trip.
It is built on a Ford V 8 chassis and is divided into two compartments. The for ward section is a dispensary and the after one is a combined clinic and ambulance room, with accommodation for the nurse and a mother and child. The clinic is painted cream and green, inside and out, with the words “Child Hygiene” written in English, Fijian and Hindustani on a plaque on the body. It serves one of the areas most densely populated by all races in the Colony.