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Extra Nourishment for Tuberculous Persons.
During the year 1936 the Council approved a scheme for the supply of extra
nourishment for necessitous tuberculous patients residing in the Borough. The
scheme was prepared under the Public Health (Prevention of Disease) Act, 1913,
which gives power to local authorities, subject to the approval of the Minister of
Health, to supply such extra nourishment. A circular issued by the Ministry of
Health specified the type of cases which the Minister considered could be
suitably dealt with by such grants, viz.:—
(i) Ex-sanatorium cases, where the medical condition is such that a grant
of extra nourishment is necessary to enable the patient to maintain or recover
full working capacity, and
(ii) Patients with prospects of ultimate recovery of the disease who are
waiting admission to sanatorium.
A scheme on these lines was submitted to, and sanctioned by, the Minister of
Health on the 16th May, 1936, and thereupon became operative in the Borough.
Grants made during 1937, four.
General Dental Clinic.
By arrangement with the British Dental Hospital, a Dental Clinic open for
inhabitants and workers in the neighbourhood is held on Tuesday evenings at the
Council's Maternity and Child Welfare Centre, No. 10, John Street. Tuberculous
patients are also seen at the Tuesday evening Clinic by appointment at times
outside the hours for the general public.

MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE
Notification of Births.
During the year 117 births were registered as occurring in the Borough.
During the same period 91 notifications of births occurring in the Borough were
received.
The mothers were attended at their confinement by:—
Private Doctors 23
Private Midwives 8