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Participants.
Expectant Mothers 278
Nursing Mothers 406
Children under 5 years 1,052
Other Foods to Expectant and Nursing Mothers.
Mothers 102
Assistance given 366 lbs. of butter
DENTAL SERVICE.
There has been no adequate provision in the past for dental treatment
of expectant and nursing mothers as an integral part of the Maternity
and Child Welfare Services in Tottenham. During the year a few
individual cases have been referred to the School Dental Clinics but
where multiple extractions have been performed there has been no provision
for supply of artificial dentures in necessitous cases. In the case
of young children under the age of five years there is ample scope both
for actual conservative treatment of the teeth find what is perhaps of
even greater importance the need for acquiring early habits of regular
inspection and dental hygiene through the propaganda methods of a
preventive dental service.
As the result of a report made to the Committee by the Medical
Officer in July, 1937, a scheme for an adequate dental service has been
approved to include :—
(1) Co-ordination with the School Dental Service by contributing
two-thirds of the salary of an additional full-time Dental
Surgeon and by arrangement with the Education Committee to