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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
Wembley 1948
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wembley]
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Number of Families Attended.
| By full-time personnel. | By personnel on approved panel. | Economic circumstances scale of families. | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fulltime | Part-time | Fulltime | Part-time | Free | 10/- | 20/- | 30/- | 40/- | 60/- | 70/- | 84/- |
| per week | |||||||||||
| 96 | 3 | 22 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 15 | 16 | 9 | 4 | 18 |
| With effect from 5/7/48 (M.C.C. assessment) | |||||||||||
| 48 | |||||||||||
| 99 | 24 | 123 | |||||||||
Domiciliary Nursing.
Mothers referred for treatment to the Wembley and Kings
bury Nursing Associations: 2.
| Expectant and Nursing mothers | Children under 5 years. | |
|---|---|---|
| Numbers who received treatment | 607 | 511 |
| Numbers of treatments:— | ||
| (a) Fillings:— | ||
| (i) in temporary teeth | — | 1,280 |
| (ii) in permanent teeth | 1,961 | — |
| (b) Number of teeth extracted | 1,170 | 499 |
| (c) Number of administrations of general anaesthesia (nitrous oxide) | 233 | 206 |
| (d) Number of persons supplied with dentures | 135 | - |
| (e) Number of dentures supplied | 209 | — |
| Total attendances at Dental Clinics last live years:— | ||
| Children. | Mothers. | |
| 1944 | 451 | 882 |
| 1945 | 621 | 1,547 |
| 1946 | 1,080 | 2,942 |
| 1947 | 1,326 | 2,680 |
| 1948 | 1,608 | 2,532 |