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attending confinements in the district. The cost to the council
was £21.
(vii) Dentistry.
Dental sessions are held at six of the welfare centres, and
arrangements are in force whereby women and children in any
area can obtain dental treatment.
(viii) Ultra Violet Light, and Massage.
At two welfare centres—one in the inner and one in the outer
wards—are carbon arc installations. Women and children are
referred from the other centres to these two for light treatment
and massage. There is also a mercury vapour lamp at the Cynthia
Mosley Day Nursery but its use is confined to the children there.
(ix) In a number of cases Wasserman, etc., tests are carried
out in ante-natal cases and in time it is hoped that such tests will
be the normal routine for every woman as the education of the
public proceeds.
Toddlers.
The arrangements made for the regular medical inspection of
toddlers at special clinics held for the purpose and for the free
treatment of minor ailments at the four voluntary hospitals in the
borough are becoming increasingly popular. The Council have
extended the provisional financial arrangements with the hospitals
and the service is now placed upon a permanent footing. Every
effort is made to obtain the services of medical men and women
in the consultant class in order that the standard of advice and
medical examination of toddlers shall be as high as can be
obtained.
A dental clinic has now been established at the Belgrave hospital
for conservative treatment and efforts are made at all welfare
centres to induce parents to agree to treatment. Ignorant
opposition and inertia, however, are delaying progress.