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ment by the hospital are referred to the various infant welfare centres in the district, and the
Medical Officer of Health is supplied with lists of these cases. The hospital consultation deals
with sick children referred from the various centres, and the Medical Officer of Health is
supplied with lists of these. The Council does not pay any of the expenses of the hospital
centre.
Royal Free Hospital, Gray's Inn Road, W.C. 1.—This hospital maintains antenatal
and infant consultations here, and at the Marlborough Maternity Section, 21, Endsleigh
Street. The St. Pancras cases are in a minority, and the Council contributes towards the
salary of the paid visitor.
Dental Clinic.—The Borough Council dental clinic for mothers and children was
continued during 1920 at the British Dentists' Hospital, 31, Camden Road, N.W. 1. The
services were confined to mothers and children attending and referred from the various
maternity and child welfare centres in the Borough. The clinics were held twice a week, and
the work done was as follows:—
Number of Clinics 85
„ with nitrous oxide anaesthesia 20
„ of new cases (mothers) 362 I
„ „ (children) 156 }
Total number of attendances 1575
Number of attendances for extractions under nitrous oxide 214
„ „ „ local anaesthesia 153
„ „ when fillings were done 202
„ „ „ scalings 119
,, „ for impressions, fitting dentures, &c. 526
„ „ „ examinations, etc. 391
No charge was made for extractions, fillings and scalings, but the patients were
required to pay towards the expense of dentures. For these the dentist is paid separately at
the rate of £2 for one denture and £4 for two dentures, and the patients' contributions
amount to about one half.
In 1920, 92 patients were fitted with dentures. The total cost of these was £317, of
which £184 3s. was paid by the patients themselves, £58 lis. by the Borough Council,
£9 7s. by the voluntary fund kindly raised by Mr. A. Escott for that purpose, and £64 19s.
from other sources, particularly the Metropolitan Hospital Sunday Fund.
Mothers and children are also dealt with at the dental clinic (voluntary) at the St.
Pancras Dispensary, and the centres at University College and Royal Free Hospitals are able
to refer cases to their own dental departments.
Clinic for Sick Mothers and Children under School Age.—A weekly clinic
(Dr. F. L. Provis) is held at the St.jPancras Dispensary, 39, Oakley Square, N.W. 1, to which
patients are referred from the infant welfare centres, the health visitors, and other sources.
During 1920, 478 new cases under five years of age were treated at the dispensary, the total
number of attendances of sick children being 1459 (at Dr. Provis' clinic the corresponding
figures were 265 and 806). 228 ailing mothers (42 expectant and 186 nursing) were also
treated at the clinic, who made 561 attendances. The medical officer is paid by the Council,
and there is a half-time visiting nurse, half of whose salary is repaid to the dispensary by
the Mayoress' Nursing Fund.