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ILLEGITIMATE CHILDREN.
Mothers of Illegitimate children are always encouraged to
keep their children with them. In necessitous cases the
Voluntary Associations at the Child Welfare Centres willingly
provide clothes, cot a or prams.
If the mother has no relative to look after her child when
at work, she can obtain admission for it at one of the Day
Nurseries.
The Council make a grant of £25 to the Hornsey Deanery and
have received much valuable assistance from this Association in
finding accommodation for the unmarried mother and placing
infants in safe hands when their mothers do not wish to keep them.
The Council are also partners in the County Council Scheme
for the care of the unmarried mother.
DENTAL TREATMENT.
Expectant and nursing mothers, who are in need of dental
treatment, are referred by the doctor at the Centres to the
Council's dentist. Complete dental treatment is available to
all who require and desire it. Although operative treatment is
given at a nominal cost to the patient (one shilling per
treatment visit) the scheme for supplying dentures is selfsupporting.
The Voluntary Association renders great assistance
in that it undertakes the collection of fees for dentures on a
scale which provides for a reduction in the cost of dentures to
necessitous mothers.
Mothers. Children.
Number inspected 152 208
Number requiring treatment 152 119
Number treated 140 114
Number of attendances 687 251
Fillings 343 183
Extractions 420 153
Gas administrations 60 52
Other operations 175 30
Dentures supplied 59 –
Dentures repaired 7 -