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LIGHT TREATMENT.
The following statistics give some idea of the light
treatments given to mothers and children arising from
both the Special Clinic for Delicate Children and the
Prophylactic Light Clinic: —
Treatment Sessions:—202 (4 per week).
Treatments:—
Children ... 384 (including 189 new cases).
Nursing Mothers 315 (including 44 new cases).
DENTAL CLINIC.
The Dental Clinic established in September, 1925,
and conducted by Miss J. H. M. Sutherland, L.D.S.
(R.C.S.), has continued with two sessions per month
ever since.
The year's work was as follows:—
Thirteen Ordinary Sessions and eleven Gas Sessions
have been held during the year on alternate Thursday
mornings.
Cases brought forward from 1927 14
New cases—Mothers 53
Children 75
Subsequent attendances—Mothers 58
Children 74
Total attendances 260
Average attendance per session 11
Forty-seven mothers and 52 children were recommended
by the doctors at the Centre, and 12 mothers and 20
children by the Health Visitors, etc.
Treatment has comprised the following :—
Mothers. Children.
Extractions 28 53
Fillings 8 24
Dressings 6 2
Silver nitrate — 14
Scalings and polishing 14 2
Referred to Hospitals 16
Ten expectant mothers attended the Clinic as patients,