New Mobile Clinic For Fiji Child Welfare
pp. 49-50 · Read in the full issue
THIS handsome vehicle is a new mobile child-welfare clinic designed and built by Fiji Public Works Depart ment for the Suva-Rewa area.
Cost of the vehicle has been met by a donation of £750 made by the Colonial Sugar Refining Company in 1948.
Mr. Albert Hoeflich of the PWD is the designer; it was built under his supervision.
The clinic has two com partments—one for sterilising instruments and dispensing medicines; the other for ex amining babies and interview ing their mothers. Careful planning has resulted in full
use of all space and special attention has been given to ventilation.
The new clinic will be used in alternate weeks by the Health Sister, Suva (Miss
Photo by Fiji Public Relation Office.
A. M. Walton) and the Health Sister, Wainibokase (Miss N. Hill). It will re place a vehicle that became unserviceable at the end of 1948.
The projected Fijian Rugby tour of »Australia is unlikely to take place be fore 1952, and the possibility of a Fijian cricket tour in the 1951-52 season is now being discussed.