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Dental Clinic.
Expectant and nursing mothers and children under school age
in need of dental treatment can obtain such treatment from the
Dental Surgeon at Stuart Villa on Tuesday afternoons, when
recommended by the Medical Officer at the Child Welfare Centres.
The following is a record of the work done during the year:—
Extractions (with local anaesthetic) 25
,, (with gas) 469
Fillings 52
Scalings, etc. 199
Advice only 228
Dentures provided 22
Light Treatment.
By arrangement with the Middlesex County Council, mothers
and children are sent, as occasion arises, to the North Middlesex
County Hospital for artificial sunlight treatment.
Home Visiting.
During the year the Health Visitors made a total of 7,271
home visits to mothers and children. 3,017 of these visits were
to babies under one year of age, 3,864 to children of from 1 to 5
years of age, and 390 were ante-natal visits to expectant mothers.
Free Food.
Free food, consisting mostly of dried milk or malt and cod
liver oil, was issued during the year to necessitous expectant and
nursing mothers attending the Centres, at a cost of £120 7s. 1d.
Cows' milk was issued similarly at a cost of £170 10s. 1d., Free
dinners were also supplied to necessitous mothers at the Feeding
Centre in White Hart Lane at a cost of £7 19s. 9d.