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Council's ancillary services in connection with maternity and
child welfare, and it is gradually moulding public opinion to
the necessity for the early treatment of these children.
Dental Treatment. Dental work is carried on at the
School Clinic, Brewer Street. Mothers and children are
referred there from the centres. The following Table, No. 70,
shows the cases attending and the total attendances during
the year. The number of sessions was 24, excluding
anaesthetic days:—

Dentures are provided free, at part cost, or at cost price,
according to ability to pay, and payment is spread over many
weeks. In consequence, the income received during the year
includes money received in respect of dentures supplied in
1925. 30 sets (complete or partial) of false teeth were
supplied during the year at a total cost of £116 2s. Payments
by patients amounted to £90 18s. 6d.
Institutional Midwifery. The Council do not maintain a
maternity hospital, but they have made arrangements with
the British Hospital for Mothers and Babies whereby 144
cases, recommended by the Medical Officer of Health, are
confined there per annum. For this service the Council pays
£1,500 a year. In addition, the hospital has undertaken
to provide accommodation for such cases as require
ante-natal treatment. Each patient admitted is required to
pay fees according to the earnings of her husband, and a minimum
fee has been fixed at £3 per confinement in the case of
multiparae and £4 per confinement in the case of primiparae.
The charge is based on a normal residence of fourteen days,
but an additional fee of 3s. per day is charged if this period is
exceeded. The amount recovered in patients' fees during the
year was £595 3s., making a net cost of £992 7s., 50 per cent.