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will be found in Section 2. The following is a summary of the work
carried out at the Council's Clinic during 1926 :—
Number of Sessions held 49
Patients' Attendances 280
Number of Fillings 27
Number of Scalings 22
Total Number of teeth extracted 315
Gas Administrations 55
Extraction cases
Local Administrations 20
Without Anaesthetic 1
Number of Dentures (including repairs) 21
Number of Dressings and Root treatment 16
Number for Advice 32
Number of Denture visits 70
Number of New Patients 91
Maternity Homes and Hospitals and other Institutions for the
reception of expectant and nursing mothers and young children
as in-patients.
Registration oj Maternity Homes.—Section 5 of the Midwives and
Maternity Homes Act, 1926, deals with the important question of the
registration of maternity homes, and prescribes heavy penalties against
any person who, on or after the appointed day, carries on a maternity
home within the meaning of the Act without being registered. The
expression "maternity home" is defined as meaning "any premises used
or intended to be used for the reception of pregnant women or of
women immediately after child-birth, but shall not include any hospital
or other premises maintained or controlled by a Government Department
or Local Authority, or by any other body of persons constituted by
special Act of Parliament or incorporated by Royal Charter." A local
supervising authority may exempt from the necessity of registration, &c.—
(a) Any hospital or other premises for the conduct of which a
duly qualified medical practitioner resident therein is responsible;
or
(b) Any hospital or institution not carried on for profit and not
used mainly as a maternity home.
The local supervising authority may refuse to register an applicant
if they are satisfied—
(a) That the applicant or any person employed by the applicant at
the home is not a fit person, whether by reason of age or otherwise,
to carry on or to be employed at a maternity home; or