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Winter School.
One of the Health Visitors attended a revision course during the winter. These courses
are attended each year by the Health Visitors in turn and are valuable in enabling them to keep
in touch with developments in Maternity and Child Welfare work.
Infant Welfare Centres.
The infant consultations were held on four afternoons weekly, that at Murray Park,
Whitton, being held on Monday and those at York House on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday
afternoons.

Treatment is not carried out at the Welfare Centres. When medical or surgical treatment
is required the cases are referred to private practitioners or to hospitals. Treatment was advised
for 117 children during the year and was obtained in 106 cases.
Dental treatment for children under 5 years was given to 31 children. All the cases
were extractions of carious teeth, which were carried out under " gas " anaesthesia.
Prevention of Deafness.
By arrangement with the Education Committee, infants who were found to be suffering
from ear disease were allowed to attend at the School Clinic for treatment and if necessary for
examination by the Consulting Aurist.
Under this arrangement 10 infants attended for treatment during the year.
Infant Life Protection.
The Health Visitors are also appointed as infant life protection visitors under the Children
Act, 1908. The details as to registration during 1934 were as follows :—
Number of foster children on register at beginning of year 58
Number removed from register 52
Number registered for first time during year 56
Number on register at end of 1934 62
Deaths of foster children 1
SECTION C.
SANITARY CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE AREA.
The number of dwellings which derive their water supply from wells is negligible. All
the new houses erected are connected with the main supply and even in the portion of the district
(Heathfield Farm Estate) where most of the wells existed, the Council have guaranteed the cost
of a supply from that of the Metropolitan Water Board which supplies the district generally.
During the abnormally dry seasons during the years 1933 and 1934, the only restrictions
placed on the use of water did not apply to that for drinking and domestic purposes, and any
menace to health from this direction did not arise.
Although a few cesspools still exist no difficulty has arisen, although the Council have
ceased to arrange for the periodic emptying. The remainder of the district is sewered on the
separate system and in spite of the erection of large numbers of new dwellings the disposal works
have met the demand satisfactorily.
The colossal West Middlesex sewerage scheme has not yet commenced to function, although
evidence of the activity of those carrying out the works has been only too apparent to persons
living in the neighbourhood.