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Dental Clinic.—Hackney is almost, if not quite, alone among
the London Boroughs in failing to provide a Dental Clinic. The
cost of providing dental treatment is trifling as compared with the
costliness of dealing with the diseases and crippling that so often
result from dental caries.
The necessity of attention to oral sepsis and dental caries, if
health is to be preserved, is so well known by now that it is
not necessary to give any facts as to the amount of ill-health
caused by neglect in this direction.
Minor Ailments.—There is no treatment for ailments such as
minor septic conditions, discharging ears, phimosis, naevi,
neglected rickets, adenoids, skin ailments, etc. Massage for
conditions supervening on paralytic infections (poliomyelitis) and
rickets could also be carried out at the Centre.
Ante-natal Clinics.—Three Ante-natal Centres, two of them
fortnightly Clinics, is surely inadequate for a Borough of the
size of Hackney.
Millfields Road Treatment Centre would relieve Overburv
Street of its excess attendances and would permit of an Antenatal
Clinic being held for mothers attending Northwold Road
Northwold Road Centre greatly needs an Ante-natal Clinic.
These clinics are needed both in order to prevent injury and
loss of maternal life in child-bjrth and also to prevent the loss of
infantile life in the days immediately following confinement, which
still remain to a considerable degree unaffected by present
measures.
The Medical Officer of the Ministry of Health has recently
stated:—