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Dentures are provided free, at part cost, or at cost price, according to the 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
previous years. Forty-eight sets (complete or partial) of artificial teeth were supplied
during the year at a total cost of £198 13s. 6d. Payments by mothers amounted to
£75 7s. 6d.
Orthopaedic Treatment for Children under Five Years of Age.—
Children requiring orthopaedic treatment are referred to the remedial clinic of the
Woolwich Invalid Children's Aid Association. The Council pay for children under
five years of age sent by their medical officers to the clinic, 2s. Od. per attendance
for cases requiring massage or electrical treatment and Is. 6d. per attendance for
any other form of treatment. The cost of these services for the year was £178 5s. Od.
Only cases recommended by the Medical Officer of Health are included in this scheme,
and payment is only made for the number of attendances approved by him. Excluding
87 children where wedges only were necessary and 51 others where temporary
splinting only was required, the children referred to the clinic required treatment for
following conditions set out under tabulated headings in Table No. 16.
All children referred to this clinic are carefully " followed up either by the
Voluntary Visitors of the Association or by the Council's Health Visitors.
The Woolwich Invalid Children's Aid Association's main clinic is in Thomas
Street, Woolwich, but arrangmeents have been made for the treatment of Eltham
children on two half days a week at Christehurch Church Hall, Eltham High Street.
The Association found, just as the Council did in the case of the artificial sunlight
clinic, that the matter of attendances of Eltham children was a very difficult problem
for Eltham mothers. The arrangement is a temporary one. The Maternity and
Child Welfare Committee have accepted in principle the establishment of a municipal
orthopaedic clinic at Eltham to be housed in the same building as the proposed
artificial sunlight clinic.