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Holborn 1936

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Holborn Borough]

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General Dental Clinic.
By arrangement with the British Dental Hospital, a Dental Clinic open for
inhabitants and workers in the neighbourhood is held on Tuesday evenings at the
Council's Maternity and Child Welfare Centre, No. 10, John Street. Tuberculous
patients are also seen at the Tuesday evening Clinic by appointment at times
outside the hours for the general public.
The Secretary of the Hospital has kindly supplied the following information
of the work at the Clinic during the year 1936: —

Table: Summary of work carried out at Dental (clinic, 10, John Street, Holborn, on TuesdayEvenings, during 1936.

Summary of work carried out at Dental (clinic, 10, John Street, Holborn, on TuesdayEvenings, during 1936.

Tuberculous Patients.All
Number of sessions held—47
Number of patients' attendances11332
Number of fillings—69
Number of scalings—10
Number of extraction casesWithout anaesthetic——
With local anæsthetic546
With gas
213
Number of teeth extracted28209
Number of dentures (including repairs)—37
Number of dressings—22
Number for advice447
Number of denture visits_90
Number of new patients—64

Table: MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE.Notification of Births. During the year 121 births were registered as occurring in the Borough. During the same period 93 notifications of births occurring in the Borough were received. All were from doctors and midwives.

MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE.Notification of Births. During the year 121 births were registered as occurring in the Borough. During the same period 93 notifications of births occurring in the Borough were received. All were from doctors and midwives.

The mothers were attended at their confinement by: —
Private Doctors9
Private Midwives9
Out-patient Midwifery Departments of General Hospitals and Institutions: —
Externs and others20
Midwives.—University College Hospital13
Middlesex Hospital3
Other Institutions13
Training Institution for Midwives, Myddelton
Square26
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Two of these notifications related to stillbirths.
Number of Births.
he number of births transferred to the Borough from outlying'
institutions was 171
The number of births transferred from the Borough to other
districts was 3
The net number of births belonging to the Borough was 289
There are no maternity hospitals or lying-in institutions in the Borough, but
maternity cases are admitted to a nursing home in the area.