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Total Mothers and Children over and under 5 years and other
Categories Evacuated:—
(a) Mothers 3,142
(b) Children under 5 2,703
(c) Children over 5 4,995
10,840
Other Categories:—
(a) Aged Persons 574
(b) Invalid Persons 174
(c) Blind Persons 6
(d) Expectant Mothers 53
(e) Homeless Persons 28
835
Total 11,675
Total number of Cheap Travel Vouchers to visit
Evacuees in the Reception Areas from 1st
July to 22nd September, 1944 1,479
MATERNITY AND NURSING HOMES.
The number of Nursing Homes on the register at the beginning
of the year was one.
Number of applications for registration Nil
Hospitals exempt from registration 1
(i.e., the Prince of Wales's General Hospital)
Number on the register at the end of the year 1
DENTAL TREATMENT FOR MOTHERS AND
CHILDREN.
The number of expectant and nursing mothers who have
received dental treatment during the year was 526. Of these 428
were ante-natal and 98 post-natal cases, all of whom were rendered
dentally fit by fillings where preservation was possible; and otherwise,
by extraction under local or general anaesthesia.