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Supervisor under the general direction of the Divisional Medical Officer.
Close liaison was kept up with the almoners of hospitals, and it was found
possible to meet the many requests received for tuberculous patients
and the care of the aged under the St. Helier Hospital geriatric service.

Treatment. Minor Ailments. One hundred and twenty-nine cases
were referred from the Infant Welfare Centres to Hospital Specialists
for investigation and treatment during the year.

Dental. The arrangements whereby expectant mothers, nursing
mothers and infants under 5 years of age received dental treatment at
the Grange clinic continued as satisfactorily as could be expected, having
regard to the general shortage of dental staff.

Fifty-seven patients were made dentally fit and 30 were still attending
for treatment at the end of the year.
Orthopaedic. Patients attending infant welfare centres who require
treatment for orthopaedic defects are referred by the Clinic Medical
Officer to orthopaedic surgeons at St. Helier or other hospitals. During
1949, nine cases were referred for treatment.
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