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Wood Green 1920
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wood Green]
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It has certainly been a great advantage to be able to obtain
specialised advic6 in such cases.
The arrangements for Dental Treatment remain as last year The numbers dealt with have been as follows:—
| New Dentures Provided | 5 |
| Extractions | 61 |
| Fillings, Scalings, etc. | 8 |
GENERAL
During the year I was appointed by the Council as Medical
Officer of Health in place of Dr. Slater Jones, resigned
As the Council are aware he has been ill for a considerable time,
and the nature of his incapacity will prevent him from ever resuming
duty again.
Before his appointment as Medical Officer of Health he assisted
your first Medical Officer (Dr. Conolly) in the inspection of school
children, and thus gave many years of his life to public service. I
should like to take this occasion of expressing my sympathy towards
him in the catastrophe which has overtaken him in the nature of his
serious illness, and it has given me great pleasure to act as his Deputy.
Mr. W. R. Drake, Assistant Sanitary Inspector, left your employ
to take up the position of District Inspector in the Borough of
Greenwich, and Mr. A. J. Nichols, who came to us with excellent
testimonials from Huddersfield, was appointed to fill the vacancy and
commenced duty at the beginning of August.
Mr. E. A. Hillier, who was a local discharged disabled
soldier attending theoretical classes at the Battersea Polytechnic, was
allowed by the Council to have practical training in the Public Health