Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bexley]
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1939 | 1940 | 1941 | 1942 | 1943 | 1944 | 1945 | |
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(h) Dental Clinic | |||||||
No. referred to dental clinic by M.O.'s | 428 | 386 | 469 | 415 | 426 | 278 | 346 |
No. found to be in need of treatment | 422 | 386 | 350 | 375 | 318 | 278 | 346 |
No. who received treatment | 394 | 341 | 292 | 375 | 318 | 276 | 331 |
No. made dentally fit | 215 | 315 | 100 | 202 | 146 | 229 | 298 |
Number of treatments— (a) Fillings : | |||||||
(1) In temporary teeth | 121 | 222 | 221 | 136 | 260 | 164 | 75 |
(2) In permanent teeth | 114 | 212 | 192 | 204 | 452 | 409 | 537 |
(b) Teeth extracted | 1633 | 1658 | 930 | 1233 | 1468 | 1064 | 857 |
(c) Administration of general anaesthesia | 381 | 209 | 119 | 159 | 216 | 120 | 102 |
(d) Local anaesthesia | 67 | 86 | 63 | 94 | 118 | 140 | 139 |
Patients supplied with dentures | 39 | 67 | 52 | 58 | 70 | 67 | 84 |
Dentures supplied | 73 | 102 | 95 | 103 | 127 | 118 | 129 |
No. of scalings and gum treatment | — | — | 48 | 136 | 477 | 342 | 439 |
The number of dental sessions per week was increased
to three in 1944 and the figures show a policy of
conservation of teeth by the greater number of fillings
and the reduction of extractions.
(ii) Institutional Provision for Mothers.
(a) Maternity Home.
Since 1939 the staff has been on a 96 hour fortnight
and despite all the difficulties of air raids the Home has
carried on and now admits and deals with abnormal
cases in view of the difficulties in obtaining admission
for these cases to London Hospitals. Increased staff has
been difficult to recruit but not until 1945 has the
shortage been felt. The Home has continued as a
training school for the State Ceritfied Midwives Part II
examination.
Priority admission is given to primiparae, previous
or expected abnormal cases, cases from overcrowded
homes and unmarried mothers.
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