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6. That payment of fees to dental practitioners be conditional on the
quality and fitting of the dentures being approved by the Council's Dental
Surgeon.
7. That, when the provision of dentures is recommended, patients
be required to fill up and sign a form giving particulars of the financial
circumstances of the family. That, before the work is put in hand, the
patient be informed of the contribution which she will be required to make
towards the cost of the dentures; and that the patient and husband be
required to sign an undertaking to pay the sum assessed.
8. That the amount of such contributions be regulated by the follow
ing scale of family income :—
To be remitted Where after deNumber
if after deduc- ducting rent and
in tion of rent the allowances for Assessment .
Family. income does children the innot
exceed come is
£ s. d.
1 0 10 0 Up to £1 5s. 50 per cent. of first £1 or
2 10 0 part thereof, plus 25 per
3 15 6 cent. of amount
ing £1.
4 112 0 £1 5s. to £1 15s. 60 per cent. of first £1 or
5 1 17 6 part thereof, plus 40 per
6 2 2 0 cent. of amount
ing £1.
7 2 2 0 £1 15s. to £2 5s. 75 per cent, of first £1 or
8 2 8 0 part thereof, plus 50 per
9 2 9 6 cent. of amount exceed-
ing £1.
10 2 15 0 £2 5s. to £2 15s. Whole cost if under £1. If
11 3 0 6 over, 100 per cent. of
12 3 0 0 first £1, plus 50 per cent.
of amount over.
£2 15s. and over The whole cost.
Deductions.—Rent and
6s. for 1 child.
10s. for 2 children.
15s. for 3 children.
£1 for 4 children, and
2s. 6d. for each additional child.
9. That this scheme shall not apply to women who are entitled to
benefit under the National Health Insurance (Dental Benefit) Regulations,
and that H.S.A. vouchers be not accepted by the Council in respect of treatment
or dentures supplied.
Qualified dental practitioners resident in the area were given
the opportunity of stating whether they were prepared to undertake