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(3) MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE.
The work of this department proceeded as in previous years
except that in April Dr. Helena B. King resigned her post as
Medical Attendant to the Brentford Clinics on the appointment
of a whole time Assistant Medical Officer of Health. Dr. King
had attended these Clinics since the amalgamation of Brentford
and Chiswick and it was a sincere regret that we could no
longer avail ourselves of her most valuable services and skill.
The Dental, Orthopaedic and Rheumatism Clinics provided
by the Education Committee are open to cases referred from
the Maternity and Child Welfare Centres, and the following
tables show the use made of these facilities. Also the Minor
Ailment Clinic is used for cases of opthalmia and otorrhoea
that require daily treatment. The local hospitals are always
willing to assist us whenever it is possible for them to do so
and the Children's Hospitals and Children's Departments of
London Hospitals are important helpful factors in our work.
The scope of work undertaken at the Clinics was as in
previous years and has been described in previous reports.
Special cases referred to clinics or hospitals are shown in the
following table:—
Dental Clinic: 86 mothers and 216 children.
Orthopaedic Clinic: 2 mothers and 84 children.
Rheumatism Clinic: 2 mothers and 2 children.
District Nurse: 6 cases of otorrhoea.
3 cases of ventricularis.
2 cases of ophthalmia.
Chiswick Hospital: 48 cases of circumcision.
28 cases of tonsils and adenoids.
2 cases of malnutrition.
4 cases of naevus.
1 case of septic gland.
1 case of whitlow.
Brentford Hospital: 1 case of cervical glands.
1 case of albuminuria.
3 other cases.
Victoria Hospital for 10 cases of squint.
Children, Chelsea: 5 cases of naevus.
2 cases of malnutrition.
1 case each of whooping cough,
polypus of rectum, hydrocele, malaena,
enuresis, eczema, nystagmus,
hernia, cyst eyelid.