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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Chief Sanitary Inspector's Report—
Tables of Inspections and Improvements, etc. 36—38
Food Inspection 38
Tables—Factories Act, 1937 39
Shops Acts, 1912—1936 40
Swimming Pool 40
Eradication of Bed Bugs 41
Camping Sites 41
Schools 41
HOUSING.
Council Estates 41—42
Inspection of Dwelling Houses 42
Remedy of Defects without formal notice 42
Action under Statutory Powers 42—43
Overcrowding—Housing Act, 1936, Part IV 43—44
Public Health Act, 1936—Provision of Dust Bins 44
INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OF FOOD.
Milk Supply 44
Meat Inspection 44
Adulteration of Food—Food & Drugs Act 45
Registration of Premises 45
PREVALENCE AND CONTROL OVER INFECTIOUS
AND OTHER DISEASE.
Scarlet Fever 45
Diphtheria 45
Diphtheria Immunisation 46
Enteric Fever 46
Puerperal Pyrexia 47
Ophthalmia Neanatorum 47
Measles 47
Whooping Cough 47—48
Dysentery 48
Cerebro-spinal Fever 48
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TABLE IV.
Dental Inspection and Treatment.
(1) | Number of pupils inspected by the Authority's Dental Officers— | ||
(a) Periodic age groups | 7,407 | ||
(b) Specials | 782 | ||
Total (Periodic and Specials) | 8,189 | ||
(2) | Number found to require treatment | 5,369 | |
(3) | Number actually treated | 2,768 | |
(4) | Attendances made by pupils for treatment | 6,029 | |
(5) | Half-days devoted to (a) Inspection | 45 | |
(b) Treatment | 854 | ||
Total (a) and (b) | 899 | ||
(6) | Fillings : Permanent Teeth | 1,616 | |
Temporary Teeth | 532 | ||
Total | 2,148 | ||
(7) | Extractions : Permanent Teeth | 460 | |
Temporary Teeth | 3,387 | ||
Total | 3,847 | ||
(8) | Administration of general anaesthetics for extraction | 359 | |
(9) | Other Operations (a) Permanent Teeth | 1,050 | |
(as above) (b) Temporary Teeth | 934 | ||
Total (a) and (b) | 1,984 | ||
Scalings | 43 | 1,984 | |
Cleaning | 213 | ||
Polishing | 211 | ||
Dressings | |||
Permanent Teeth | 550 | ||
Temporary Teeth | 934 | ||
Root dressings | 33 |