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Ultra Violet Therapy.
Light treatment is carried out at the Becontree and at the
Dagenham Clinics, two sessions being held weekly at each of the
premises. The cases treated are referred from the Infant Welfare
Centres and all children are seen by the Medical Officer every
fortnight. A few children of school age are referred by the School
Medical Officer.
A course of treatment commences with a two minutes exposure
back and front working up to a 6 minutes double exposure, being 12
exposures in all. Many children had two courses of exposures.
The Clinics closed down from May to September.
235 children commenced treatment, of whom 131 completed
the course. The commonest condition for which children were
referred was rickets, though a large number of convalescents from
whooping cough were also treated. The greatest improvement
from this treatment appears to be those children in their second
year suffering from rickets.
Dental Treatment.
8 extraction sessions were held, at which 102 children were
treated and 183 mothers, making a total of 318 attendances. A
charge is made for each ease (not per attendance), the amount
depending upon the financial circumstances of the family. The
amount received was £9 12s. Od. and the nett cost of this service
was £13 14s. 7d.
Dentures are provided, usually only to those cases referred
from the ante-natal clinic. The amount recovered as patients'
contributions was £13 9s. 9d., leaving a sum of £173 4s. 3d. as the
cost to the Council.
Convalescent Home.
Two mothers with their babies, and 2 children, were admitted
to Convalescent Homes at a cost of £8 16s. 6d.
Other Provisions.
One child under 5 years of age was supplied with spectacles
at a cost of 5s. 10d.
One child was maintained at the Royal Deaf and Dumb
School Margate, until 20/7/33 at a cost of £23 14s. l1d.