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decided on, I would recommend the Council to take over the
present Superintendent, who is fully qualified for the
work and knows the district well. This would entail additional
working expenses, as her salary is not up to the
standard of our Health Visitors. It must not be forgotten
at the same time that we get back from the Ministry of
Health half our expenses on Maternity and Child Welfare
Work.
The latter course here sketched out is the one I recommend,
but should the committee think it inadvisable to
embark on a large scheme at the present moment, I would
recommend them to grant another £100 per annum to
enable this centre, which is in that part of the Borough
with the highest infantile mortality, and therefore very
greatly needed, to carry on."
Unregistered Dentists.
The following report was submitted in June, 1919, on Unregistered
Dentists, and representations were made to the
Council on the lines suggested:—
One of the results of this report was that the Committee,
when the question of a dentist in connection with the Maternity
and Child Welfare came up later, decided to appoint a wholetime
dentist at a salary of £600 per annum.
"The evils of the practice of dentisty by unqualified persons
is a subject of a report which was issued in February
by the Committee appointed by the Lord President of the
Council to enquire into the extent and gravity of the evils
of dental practice by persons not qualified under the
Dentists' Act.
There is no doubt this report is a very grave indictment
of the present system whereby unqualified persons can
practice dentistry with impunity. Evidence was given
before them of a list of injuries, etc., as follows: —
(a) Injuries to the mouth and jaws owing to unskilful
operations.
(b) Teeth are frequently broken, cut or snapped off.
(c) Septic poisoning.