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In June, owing to the increased attendances and in consequence
of the insufficiency of the accommodation available for properly
treating the patients, it was resolved to increase by six sessions yearly
the number of dental sessions at which anaesthetics are administered by
the Assistant Medical Officer of Health.
Orthopædic Treatment.
The patients found by the Health Visitors in their homes, or in
attendance at the Welfare Centres, who are in need of orthopaedic
treatment or advice are referred to the Orthopaedic Department of
one or other of the various London Hospitals.
No special scheme for this has been established as to date. The
doctors at the Centres have experienced no difficulty in obtaining appropriate
treatment for their patients by this means.
Grants to Voluntary Associations.
It had been the practice of the Borough Council to contribute to
the local Nursing Associations in respect of their midwifery and
maternity nursing work as follows:—
Kilburn and West Hampstead District Nursing Association:—
£100 per annum for midwifery, and
£100 per annum for maternity nursing.
Hampstead District Nursing Association:—
Maternity and Midwifery cases £3 3s. per case.
As, however, these services were no longer rendered under the
agreements as services arranged for by the Borough Council, they
having been included in the County Council's Scheme for London
under the Midwives Act, 1936, the Borough Council resolved on the
24th March, 1938, to discontinue the grants at the end of that financial
year,