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Fulham 1925

Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1925

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In connection with these clinics the following are
particulars of children who attended for special
treatment :—
At 92, Greyhound Road.
Number of children who attended for massage
or treatment of minor ailments 216
Number of attendances 1,025
At The School Treatment Centre, 18, Bagleys Lane.
For operative treatment for enlarged tonsils and
adenoids—Number of children 17
For dental treatment (Number of children) 13
For dental treatment (Number of women) 85
Total attendances of women for dental treatment 242
Of these 85 women, 21 were provided with dentures.
For visual defects—
Number of mothers treated 25
Ante-Natal Clinics.
At 92 Grkyhound Road.
Number of women who attended 354
Number of attendances 1,273
At 170, Wandsworth Bridge Road.
Number of women who attended 66
Number of attendances 217
Number of ante-natal visits to homes 914
Fulham Babies' Hospital, Broomhouse Road.—This
hospital is conducted by a Voluntary Committee and
receives a grant of £700 per annum from the Council,
one half of this sum is repaid to the Borough Council
by the Ministry of Health.
It contains 21 beds, 14 of which are reserved solely
for the use of Fulham residents by agreement between
the Hospital Committee and the Borough Council. The
Medical Officer of Health is Medical Superintendent of
the Hospital and the clinical work is in charge of Dr.
G. Frank Hardy, one of the Assistant Medical Officers
of Health. The primary function of the hospital is
the treatment of nutritional and dietic disorders in