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(d) Dental Treatment — Free Dental Inspection and treatment
are available, at the clinics listed on pages 43, 44 and 45, for
children under school age as well as for school children and expectant
and nursing mothers.
Details of inspections made and treatment provided are shown
in Table 8.
(e) Clinic Buildings — By the middle of the year alterations
to Hulse Avenue Clinic were complete, providing speech therapy
and hearing testing rooms, and improving the minor ailment and
clinic room. Programmes of similar improvements were planned
for Westland Avenue, Abbs Cross Lane and St. Mary's Lane
Clinics.
DAY NURSERIES
The four nurseries in the Borough provide skilled day care and
observation of 190 children under the age of five years.
Such skilled and intensive care is primarily required by the
handicapped, deprived or isolated children of the Borough and
those parents who may be unable, because of illness or other disability,
to give their children a normal upbringing. The number of
priority admissions on these medical or social grounds has and
will continue to increase, as the importance of giving young children
a stimulating and satisfying environment becomes more widely
understood and the service better known.
Staff numbers were maintained despite some difficulty in finding
suitable replacements. Six student nursery nurses from the
College of Further Education, Ardleigh Green Road, were attached
to the Elm Park Nursery.