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Home Helps.
(i) Is a Home Help Scheme in operation? Yes.
(ii) How many Home Helps are employed?
(а) Whole-time—2.
(b) Part-time—6 (at end of year).
(iii) In how many cases were Home Helps provided
under the above arrangements during the year? 85
There were no daily Guardians employed.
Dental Treatment—M. & C.W. 1946.
Expectant and Nursing Mothers:—
1. Number of patients treated 523
2. Number of scalings 38
3. Other operations 171
4. Number of teeth filled 171
5. Number of teeth extracted 492
6. Number of administrations of general anaesthetics
79
Children under 5:—
(a) Number treated 279
(b) Number of teeth filled 34
(c) Number of teeth extracted 363
(d) Number of other treatments 71
The number of sessions devoted to treatment of mothers and
children was 110.
Administration of Analgesics.
(a) Number of midwives in practice in the area qualified to
administer Analgesics in accordance with the requirements of the
Central Midwives' Board:—
(i) Domiciliary 1*
(ii) In institutions 4†
(b) Are facilities provided to enable midwives practising in the
area to attend courses of instruction in the administration of
Analgesics in institutions approved by the Central Midwives' Board
for the purpose?
Facilities are being provided.
* Employed by Voluntary Association (Burges Road).
† East Ham Memorial Hospital.