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Treatment. Children requiring medical or surgical treatment
are referred to the School Clinic, Brewer Street, and the
Borough Council pays 5s. Od. for each case so referred. During
the year 22 cases were sent there for treatment.
Dental Scheme. The dental work is carried out under the
aegis of a local association of medical practitioners at their
Clinic at Brewer Street, and the following Table shews the
number of cases attending and the number of attendances
during the year. The number of dentures authorised to be
supplied was 14.

The Work of Health Visitors. No change has taken place
in the Health Visiting Staff during the present year, at the
end of which they numbered eight, two of whom hold the combined
appointment of Sanitary Inspector and Health Visitor.
It is no longer necessary to detail the work of the Health
Visitors but the extensive nature of it can been seen from a
study of Table No. 56 which shews in detail the number of
visits paid by them during the year. In addition to this
they attend centres at which women and children come for
medical and hygenic advice and arrangements have been
made whereby the Health Visitor is in attendance at the
centres serving the district in which she works. Their visits
are welcomed by the mothers and the phenomenally low
infantile mortality rate, namely, 43, the lowest which has