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Dental Clinic.
By arrangement, certain sessions at the Dental Clinic of the London County
Council are set aside for the inspection and treatment of mothers and children under
the maternity and child welfare scheme of the Borough Council. Statistics for 1937
are set out below:—
Mothers—attendances 542
Children— „ 43
Cases receiving advice and treatment 433
Extractions under gas 152
Massage Clinic.
Sessions were held twice weekly at the Salisbury Street Centre.
Orthopaedic Treatment.
Cases requiring orthopaedic treatment are referred by the medical officers at
the welfare centres to the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, which is situated
in the Borough.
Artificial Sunlight Therapy.
Clinics for providing this form of treatment were held twice weekly at the
Salisbury Street Centre.
Diphtheria Immunisation Clinics.
As indicated on page 66, these clinics continued to operate throughout the year,
and were largely attended.
Maternity Cases.
The Council has not established a maternity home or hospital, having regard
to the large amount of accommodation available within the borough at Queen
Charlotte's Hospital and Middlesex Hospital. The number of births notified from
these institutions during 1937 was 2,536, the total births numbering 3,877. The
midwives residing in the borough registered as intending to practise in the administrative
County of London, number 14. Two conduct maternity homes which are
registered by the London County Council. By an arrangement with the Paddington
and St. Marylebone District Nursing Association, all women in the borough attended
by externs of St. Mary's Hospital are provided with nursing attention by the Association.
During the year 18 cases were dealt with under the arrangement, and 360
visits were paid, the services of the nurses being greatly appreciated by the patients.
Maternity beds have been provided by the London County Council at St.
Mary Abbots Hospital, Kensington, pending, it is understood, opening of modern
labour wards at Paddington Hospital.
Maternity and Child Welfare Centres—Statistics.
Tables 20 and 21 on pages 37 and 38 give some idea of the work done at the
various centres during the year.
PHYSICAL TRAINING AND RECREATION ACT, 1937.
This Act came into force on the 13th July, 1937, but up to the end of the year
the Public Health Committee, to whom the duty of carrying out its provisions had
been passed, had taken no action.