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LIGHT TREATMENT.
The following statistics give some idea of the light
treatments given to mothers and children during 1929:—
Treatment Sessions:—187.
Consultations with Medical Officer:—1,216.
Treatments:—
Children 2,643 (including 212 new cases).
Expectant Mothers 37 (including 8 new cases).
Nursing Mothers 197 (including 31 new cases).
The two lamps were in use for the following
aggregate periods in the course of the year:—Pendant
184 hours, Standard 143 hours.
DENTAL CLINIC.
The Dental Clinic established in September, 1925,
and conducted by Miss J. H. M. Sutherland, L.D.S.
(H.C.S.), has continued with two sessions per month
ever since.
The year's work was as follows:—
Twelve Ordinary Sessions and eleven Gas Sessions
have been held daring the year on alternate Thursday
mornings.
Cases brought forward from 1928 10
New cases—Mothers 56
Children 56
Subsequent attendances—Mothers 79
Children 65
Total attendances 256
Average attendance per session 11
Forty-eight mothers and 31 children were recommended
by the doctors at the Centre, and 26 mothers and 15
children by the Health Visitors, etc.
Treatment has comprised the following:—
Mothers. Children.
Extractions 35 40
Fillings 7 20
Dressings 13—
Silver nitrate —11
Scalings and polishing 19—
Referred to Hospitals 9
Twelve expectant mothers attended the Clinic as patients.