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Battersea 1921
Report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea for the year 1921
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ensuing year. The development of this service is an integral
part of the training scheme for midwives and monthly nurses
at the Borough Maternity Hospital, and the Central Midwives'
Board have limited the number of pupil-midwives in training
to 2, until this service is numerically sufficiently established. It
is anticipated, however, that the necessity for this restriction
will be removed early in the coming year (see note on
page 33).
Dental Clinic.
The dental clinic in connection with the Council's
Maternity and Child Welfare scheme, which was opened in
August, 1920, has continued to carry on useful work during the
year 1921. The clinic is situate at the Maternity and Child
Welfare Centre in Plough Road, and a weekly session is held
here on Wednesdays from 2 to 4 in the afternoon.
The following is a summary of the work of the dental clinic during the year 1921:— Dental Clinic, Plough road, Battersea.
| Number of sessions held | 51 | |
| Total number of patients (women, 145; children, 32) | 177 | |
| Total attendances (women, 625; children, 55) | 680 | |
| Ordinary extractions | 90 | |
| Local anæsthetic extractions | 144 | |
| Gas extractions | 293 | |
| Scaling | 25 | |
| Fillings (simple) | 56 | |
| Dentures (upper) | 23 | |
| Dentures (lower) | 19 | |
| Repairs | 3 | |
| Dressings | 17 | |
| Try-in | 36 | |
| Dentures eased | 32 | |
| Impressions | 43 | |
| Prescriptions given | 3 | |
| Bites | 21 | |
| Grinding down teeth | 2 | |
| Polishing teeth | 1 | |
| Plaster filling taken | 1 | |
| Plaster casts taken | 1 | |
| Syringe sockets | 6 | |
| Advice | 217 | |
| Cauterising gum | 1 | |
| Letters given re Hospital Sunday Fund | 8 | |