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Willesden 1919

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Willesden]

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Additional Accommodation Required.Clinic 1.Clinic 2.
(a) Dental Waiting RoomSchool Children.—A Dentist can look after and keep in order the teeth of about 3,000 School Children per annum, when they have once been put into proper order. The provision of these rooms will make room for the additional Dentist required at this Clinic.Similarly the provision of a dental office will make room for the additional Dentist required at this Clinic.
(b) Dental Office
(c) Dental WorkshopMothers.—Hitherto, in many instances, mothers have been disinclined to have their teeth removed because they were not in a position to obtain the necessary false teeth. In many of these cases the mouths have been septic and the absorption of this septic matter into the system produces chronic debility and ill health; and the provision of dentures in these cases is urgently required. If the Committee decide to provide dentures to mothers it will be necessary to have tworooms for the dental workshop, one for the rough work, and the other for the finishing and fitting of the denturesRequired, but existing accommodation not available.
Home Nurses' RoomA room requires to be set aside for Home Nurses for their clerical work and the washing up of their instruments and preparation of their bags and equipment dailyDitto.
Assistant Matron's RoomA room is required for the Assistant Matron in connection with Home Nursing, for interviews with parents and arrangement of the work of the Home NursesDitto.
W.C. & Lavatory for Male StaffNow that the men clerks have come back this accommodation is essentialDitto.

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Clinic 1.—The above necessary additions to Clinic 1 can be obtained by the acquisition of
the adjoining premises, No. 25, St. Julian's Road.
Clinic 2.—The above necessary additions to Clinic 2 can be obtained by the acquisition of
the adjoining property, No. 383, High Road, Willesden Green. This will not provide
for Dental Workshops, a School for Mothers, ncr Caretaker's quarters. If provision
is to be made for these, additional premises will require to be built.
RECOMMENDATIONS.
That the necessary steps be taken to acquire (1) No. 25, St. Julian's Road, and (2) No. 383
High Road, Willesden Green.
GEORGE F. BUCHAN,
Medical Officer of Health.