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sary, nursing and expectant mothers are provided with
dentures. Thirty-nine dentures were supplied to mothers
through the Dental Clinic during 1937. In addition, one
denture was repaired.
A close co-operation has been established between the
Dental Clinic at the Health Centre and the Ante-natal Departments
of the Nelson and Kingston County Hospitals, who
are referring an increasing number of expectant mothers for
dental treatment.
The following table gives an indication of the work
carried out by the Dental Surgeon in connection with the
Maternity and Child Welfare Department:-
Mothers—attendances for treatment 323
„ teeth extracted 322
„ teeth filled 11
„ scalings 39
„ other operations 43
Mothers—dentures supplied 39
„ „ repaired 1
Children—attendances for treatment 157
„ teeth extracted 182
„ „ filled 7
„ „ other operations 13
Total number of fillings inserted 22
„ „ „ local anaesthetics administered
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general do. do. 158
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. These helpers give a great deal of their time
to the Centres at Pelham Road and Wandle Park House. The
work which they so unobtrusively carry out plays an important
part in the success of Child Welfare work in this
Borough.
Municipal Day Nursery.-The work at the Day Nursery
at Hubert Road continued to be most satisfactory.
The total attendances made by children amounted to
11,538 whole days. The average daily attendance was 46.71.
These children came from one hundred and forty-eight families,
five families sending three children, nineteen families two
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