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„ scalings 27
„ other operations 52
„ dentures supplied 9
„ other Prosthetic operations 51
Children—attendances for treatment 173
„ teeth extracted 156
„ „ filled 7
„ other operations 46
Total number of fillings inserted 51
„ „ „ local anaesthetics administered
39
„ „ „ general do. do. 112
Voluntary Helpers.—I should again like to draw attention
to the work which is being carried out by the voluntary
helpers in the Maternity and Child Welfare movement in
Wimbledon. The Centres at Pelham Road and Wandle Park
House are fortunate in having such enthusiastic workers.
Their activities are much appreciated by the mothers in
Wimbledon.
Municipal Day Nursery.—The work at the Day Nursery
at Hubert Road during 1932, continued to be most satisfactory.
The total attendances made by children amounted to
9,015 whole days. The average daily attendance was fortyone.
These children came from one hundred and fifteen
families, one family sending four children, three families
three children, nineteen families two children, and the
remainder one child each. The number of children on the
register on 31st December, 1932, was sixty.
The Nursery has accommodation for fifty children—
twenty infants and thirty toddlers. Infants are admitted
from the age of three weeks and toddlers remain until they
commence school at five years. The children are brought to
the Nursery between 7.30 and 9.0 a.m. They are then
undressed, bathed, and re-dressed in nursery clothes, their
own clothes being placed in numbered string bags and fumigated.
Their heads are washed at the Nursery once a week,
and oftener if this is found necessary.
The children are provided with three meals during the
day. Infants up to the age of eight or nine months are
bottle-fed, whilst the older children receive an excellent
dietary suitable to their age. This is supplemented by fruit
juice and cod liver oil and malt or virol.
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