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Scelings 49
Attendances for dentures 356
Dentures provided Upper and lower 67
Single dentures 17
Dentures repaired 2
Finished cases 118
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CARE OF ILLEGITIMATE CHILDREN AND UNMARRIED MOTHERS
Special attention is devoted to unmarried mothers and their
children by the Medical Officers, Health Visitors and Midwives.
Institutional care is available through the Scheme provided
by the Middlesex County Council for the admission of mothers to a
pre-natal hostel, confinement in a County Council Hospital and
subsequent admission to a post-natal hostel.
Mothers are also admitted to homes maintained by the London
Diocesan Council for Moral Welfare Work, there being one such Home
in Hornsey, namely, Beacon Lodge. The advice and help of the
outdoor workers attached to Beacon Lodge is available to mothers.
Many of these illegitimate, children are placed in the care of
foster mothers and several are in attendance at the Day Nurseries.
CARE OF PREMATURE BABIES
1) Number of premature babies notified during 1946 who were
born -
(a) at home 15
(b) in hospitals or nursing homes 13
2) Of those born at home -
(a) nursed entirely at home 12
(b) died during first 24 hours 2
(c) survived at end of one month 11
3) Of those born in hospitals or nursing homes -
(a) died during first 24 hours 3
(b) survived at end of one month 9
The following recommendations contained in Circular 20/44 on
the "Care of Premature Babies" have been implemented.
Paragraph 2.
(b) Provision of adequate and suitable equipment in the home.
(d) The services of a paediatrician.
(e) The giving of particular attention to the babies by
Midwives, Health Visitors.
(f) The services of a Home Help.
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