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Co-opted Members: Mrs. Carr, Mrs. Marshall, Mrs. Osborne,
Mrs. Parry, and Mrs. Underwood.
The scheme of work detailed in the report of 1920 has been
carried out during this year without any material alteration.
The health visitors have paid 20,440 visits, of which 7,982
were visits to new-born infants and 10,112 to children between the
ages of one and five years.
The three clinics have held two sessions each per week.
The following figures represent the attendances at these
clinics for the past four years:—
1920. 1921. 1922. 1923.
Town Hall Clinic 3361 3614 3286 3395
People's Hall „ 3288 5066 4546 4795
Vicarage Road „ 4868 4277 3677 4224
Totals 11517 12957 11509 12414
The ante-natal clinic held 48 sessions and 172 new patients
made 300 attendances.
DENTAL TREATMENT OF NURSING AND EXPECTANT
MOTHERS.
Number treated, 75.
Extractions under nitrous oxide, 160.
Extractions under local anaesthetic, 68.
Nitrous oxide was administered by the medical officer of
health on 44 occasions.
Fillings, 20.
Sessions, 10.
MILK (MOTHERS AND CHILDREN) ORDERS, 1919 and
1921.
The administration of the Order, viz.: the interviewing of
applicants and the granting of milk is, as was stated in the annual
report for 1921, delegated to a Sub-Committee consisting of the
ladies of the Infant Welfare Committee with Mrs. Underwood as
Chairman.