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TUBERCULOSIS.
Dental Treatment for the Year 1925.
During the past year the number of patients referred for dental
treatment by the Tuberculosis Officer has increased.
In comparing the mouths of the tuberculous patients with the
maternity patients it is found that the former are in a better condition
on the whole.
An effort has been made to save as many teeth as possible,
but the prejudice towards conservative treatment still remains.
However, more fillings have been completed than in former years,
but if the good results following this conservative treatment are
to continue, and if this method is to be more widely adopted, the
Council would be well advised to consider the possibility of another
Session. The necessity for this can be realised if it is remembered
that a simple tilling may take fifteen minutes and that a complex
filling may sometimes take double the time.

SECTION 7.
MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE.
In order that the Council, and particularly the newly elected
members thereof, might be fully conversant with the various
activities of the Council's Maternity and Child Welfare Scheme, I
circulated in November, 1925, a report covering the whole of the
facilities which were available, and as the scheme generally seems
now to have assumed definite and permanent form, I thought it
would be useful to include this report, which is as follows:—