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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
fortnight. The school nurse who attends the Dental Clinic is
paid by the London County Council.
A capitation fee of 2s. is paid by the London County Council
to the Infant Welfare Centre on 1,540 cases a year during the
War, even though the children do not accept the treatment, and
2s. a head for any cases over that number. A grant of £75 was
made for equipment.
The Minor Ailment Department is open for two hours on
four days per week for the treatment of local sores, discharging
ears and eyes, &c., by the nurse, and once a week the doctor
attends. All elementary school children, and the children attending
the Infant Welfare Centre, will be treated at a charge of threepence
each.
The Doctor attending this Centre is paid £75 per annum for
one-half session a fortnight. The nurse is supplied by the local
District Nursing Association, who will be paid at the rate of £75
per annum for five half sessions per week.
A cheque for the salaries of the dentist, anæsthetist, and doctor
will be sent by the London County Council to the Infant Welfare
Committee, through whom the payment will be made.
The London County Council will pay a rental of £12 10s. 0d.
per annum for the use of the premises for the Minor Ailment
Department, and also a fee of fourpence per head up to 375 cases.
Convalescent Homes. As regards Convalescent Homes in
connection with the Infant Welfare Centres, Tooting has an arrangement
with the Shaftesbury Union by which mothers with baoies,
and also children needing convalescence, attending any of the
Welfare Centres in the Borough can be received at the Shaftesbury
Union Convalescent Home, Addiscombe, Surrey. Unmarried
mothers are not admitted.
The Betty Rawson Home Committee for Putney elementary
school children has on several occasions had mothers, infants, and