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Dental Clinic.
Mr. Ferris reports the procedure with regard to patients
referred from the Welfare Clinics remains the same as in
previous years. Patients still require a good deal of persuasion
where fillings are concerned, although the opposition to this
form of treatment is not so great as heretofore. The number
of dentures supplied has fallen off as compared with recent years.
This may be due to the fact that many patients apparently
cannot afford to pay the charge fixed by the Council, and therefore
do not continue their treatment.
It is with concern that I have to emphasize again the
objectionable habit of "dummy sucking" which is still rife, and
feel sure that if this could be stopped, much would have been
achieved in the prophylaxis of oral hygiene.

Nursing Homes Registration Act, 1927.—This Act came
into force on the 1st July, 1928, and all persons in charge of
Nursing Homes must be registered with the Local Supervising
Authority.
Although the Council has no definite powers imposed on
them we continue to keep in touch with all Nursing Homes in
the District.
Health Week and Exhibition.—Celebrations of Greenwich
Health Week this year took place at the Borough Hall
on the 25th to 29th June. Generally speaking, the arrangements
made were similar to the very successful Exhibition held
two years ago, with the exception that this year advantage was
taken of the old disused Baths which were in process of
demolition. In this building a very interesting Sanitary
Engineering Section was shown.
Briefly, the usual trade exhibits were displayed in the
Large Hall and the exhibits of the following organisations
shown in the remaining portions of the building:—Institute of