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INTRODUCTION.
Medical Officer's Department,
Town Hall, Tottenham, N.15.
To the Chairman and other Members of the
Maternity and Child Welfare Committee.
April, 1935.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
There has been nothing of outstanding note during the year under
review.
The work of your Department is now so consolidated and linked with
that of the health and school medical departments that expansion of
present services seems to be the appropriate line of advance rather than
new departures.
Nevertheless, there are at least two directions in which the Maternity
and Child Welfare services might be improved. The first is a more
comprehensive dental scheme for mothers and children under five. The
mothers are reluctant to have teeth extracted without the hope, for
financial reasons, of having them replaced by dentures.
The second has relation to the orthopaedic treatment of children at
the earliest possible moment.
The pronounced policy of the Council in regard to your Committee's
branch of public service and the nearer prospect of having more suitable
premises wherein to render that service, seem to indicate that hopes may
not unreasonably be entertained that at no distant date mothers and
young children may have the advantages suggested.
The year has been one of great activity and loyal service by your
stafi, who, through me, and with me, thank your Committee for encouragement
and enthusiastic co-operation.
I am,
Mr. Chairman,
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
David Kirkhone.
Medical Officer of Health.