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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
Leyton 1950
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Leyton]
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Born at Home.
| Transferred to Hospital. | Nursed Entirely at Home. | Grand Total. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Died in First 24 hours. | Died on 2nd to 7th day. | Died on 8th to 28thday. | Survived 28 days. | Total. | |||
| Under 3 lbs. | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | }25 |
| 3 to 4 lbs. | — | — | 1 | — | — | 1 | |
| 4 to 5½ lbs. | 3 | — | — | - | 20 | 23 | |
Puerperal Pyrexia.
Five cases of puerperal pyrexia were notified during the year.
Maternity Mortality.
There were no maternal deaths of Leyton residents during
the year.
Dental Treatment.
Report of Senior Dental Surgeon (A. E. Hall, l.d.s.)
All cases referred from Ante and Post Natal Clinics were seen,
advised and treated by the dental officers ; but a comprehensive
system of following up all patients is not possible due to staff
shortage. Pre-school children from 2 years to 5 years ought to
be examined two, and preferably three, times a year if their teeth
are to be preserved until the natural time for shedding of the
temporary dentition. In the absence of such regular inspection
and treatment it is inevitable that one finds among the school
entrants much gross dental decay which ought never to have
occurred. Many teeth must, therefore, be sacrificed; but, where
possible (in the absence of septic processes) they are treated with
silver nitrate solution and retained as space preservers for the
second dentition.
The circumstances leading up to the present very unsatisfactory
services for the so-called "priority classes" were dealt with by
Dr. Forrest in his Health Report for 1949, page 95, et seq.