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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Enfield 1933
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Enfield]
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The following particulars show the work which has been carried out during the year, also the totals for the four previous years.
| Mothers. | Children | Totals. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1933 | 1932. | 1931. | 1930. | 1929 | |||
| Attendances | 931 | 326 | 1,257 | 1,111 | 592 | 468 | 545 |
| Treated | 190 | 150 | 340 | 340 | 172 | 132 | 145 |
| Administrations : Local Anaesthetics | 44 | 71 | 115 | 100 | 85 | 98 | 111 |
| Extractions with Local Anaesthetics | 91 | 120 | 211 | 181 | 160 | 127 | 257 |
| Administrations : N20 | 196 | 56 | 252 | 308 | 155 | 132 | 150 |
| Extractions under N20 | 918 | 153 | 1,071 | 1,501 | 600 | 456 | 528 |
| Total Extractions | 1,080 | 230 | 1,310 | 1,682 | 760 | 583 | 785 |
| N20 Sessions | 36 | — | 36 | 40 | 26 | 19 | 20 |
| Ordinary Sessions | 44 | — | 44 | 41 | 27 | 22 | 22 |
| Total Sessions | 80 | — | 80 | 81 | 53 | 41 | 42 |
| Dentures fitted | 131 | - | 131 | 120 | 54 | 50 | 61 |
| Patients receiving Dentures | 78 | - | 78 | 63 | 29 | 28 | 35 |
| Number of Patients having repairs | 20 | - | 20 | 3 | - | - | - |
| Number of repairs fitted | 20 | - | 20 | 3 | - | - | - |
| Number of fillings | 68 | 150 | 218 | 217 | 41 | 40 | — |
| Other Operations | 664 | 139 | 803 | 593 | 250 | 253 | 261 |
| Number of patients having extractions under N20 | 76 | 51 | 127 | 159 | 68 | 63 | 73 |
| Do. do. under Local Anaesthetics | 54 | 80 | 134 | 81 | 53 | 54 | 68 |
The growth of this work shews steady increase since its
beginning in 1928.
It will be noted that the numbers of dentures fitted and being
fitted have substantially increased over the figures shewn for last
year. At the same time I can only repeat that I still feel that
there is far too little dental work being carried out for children
under 5 years of age ; only 326 attendances were made.
I consider that a satisfactory figure would be somewhere in
the neighbourhood of 1,000 to 1,500. Unless children receive
dental treatment before they enter school one cannot expect
much improvement in the dental condition of school entrants,
and this condition is, at present, very unsatisfactory.