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Infant Welfare Clinics.

In addition to the usual advice given as to care and nutrition of the infants attending
the centres, medical or surgical treatment was found to be necessary for 109 children, and'was
obtained by 95 of these.
Dental treatment was given to 20 children under five years of age and in a number of cases,
treatment of minor ailments, especially that of discharging ears, was carried out at the School
Clinic. One child, aged three years, who was a deaf mute, was admitted to a special institution
for the reception of these cases.
The new Clinic at Hospital Bridge Road, Whitton, which has been designed to serve the
purposes of the Maternity and Child Welfare and School Medical services in the Whitton and
western portions of the Borough, was in course of erection, but was not completed by the end
of the period to which this report refers.
Infant Life Protection.
Each Health Visitor is appointed an Infant Life Protection Officer under the Children's
Acts, 1908-32. The details as to registration during 1936 were ;—
Number of foster children on register at beginning of year 57
Number removed from register 72
Number registered for first time during year 80
Number on register at end of 1936 65
Deaths of foster children Nil
Massage, etc.
Hitherto, no special arrangement existed whereby children could be sent to a suitable
Clinic for massage and treatment by yltra violet rays. During the year, definite arrangements
were made whereby infants requiring such treatment could be sent to St. John's Hospital,
Twickenham, for this purpose, and under this scheme 11 children attended.
In the case of 2 crippled children under five years, assistance was granted to the parents
to enable them to obtain apparatus which was necessary for the child's treatment.
SECTION C.
SANITARY CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE AREA.
Every house in the Borough derives its water supply from that of the Metropolitan Water
Board. Water closet accommodation is general throughout the district, which is drained on the
separate system. A few cesspools still exist on Eel Pie Island and the Heathfield Farm Estate.
The Sewage Disposal Works of the Corporation at the Merew'ay ceased to function during
the year, and the sewage of the Borough is now disposed of at the Mogden Works, which form
part of the West Middlesex Sewerage Scheme.
The collection of house refuse is carried out under the direction of the Borough Engineer
and Surveyor, from whose reports it is found that 12,019 tons of refuse were disposed of in the
destructor, a limited quantity being dealt with by tipping.
House refuse was collected weekly except from certain large blocks of flats, where a daily
collection was effected. The question of more frequent collection throughout the Borough was
again considered, but no alteration of the present system was decided upon.