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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
Hackney 1933
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]
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| Patient's Contributions :— | £ | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| For Dentures | 44 | 17 | 6 | |||
| For Extractions, etc. | 11 | 11 | 0 | |||
| Total Contributions | 56 | 8 | 6 | |||
| Net Cost to the Council | £257 | 14 | 9 | |||
In 31 cases dentines were supplied without cost to the patients.
The following table is given in order to show the extent to which expectant and nursing mothers and their children have benefited from the facilities for dental treatment provided by the Council under its Maternity and Child Welfare Scheme during the past five years :—
| Year. | No. of Sessions held. | No. of Attendances. | No. of Extractions. | No of Fillings. | No of other treatments. | No of Persons to whom Dentures were supplied. | No. of Dentures supplied. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1929 | 51 | 544 | 852 | 16 | 61 | 34 | 64 |
| 1930 | 81 | 874 | 1120 | 81 | 74 | 64 | 105 |
| 1931 | 100 | 1030 | 1308 | 149 | 72 | 69 | 124 |
| 1932 | 100 | 993 | 1213 | 81 | 90 | 56 | 102 |
| 1933 | 99 | 995 | 1175 | 96 | 107 | 60 | 102 |
| Totals | 431 | 4436 | 5668 | 423 | 404 | 283 | 497 |
The continued success of the Dental Clinic is a tribute to the
work and popularity of the Dental Surgeon and the Anaesthetist.
By the kindly, skilful manner in which Dr. Montague Smith deals
with timid children and the nervous pregnant women treated at the
Clinic he does much to banish the dread of submitting to dental
treatment under anaesthesia.
The following is a Report by the Dental Surgeon :—
Report by H. C. Middleton, L.D.S., R.C.S. (Edin.).
The work of the Dental Clinic has proceeded along the same general lines as
in previous years.
I still see many cases of rapid and extensive caries in the teeth of children
up to five years of age. This is chiefly due to faulty diet and feeding, the essential
vitamins being absent from the children's diet. Calcium lactate together with
vitamins A and D are given to these cases in order that their permanent teeth
may be better than the temporary ones.
The mothers fall into two classes :—
(1) Those whose teeth are so hopelessly septic that wholesale extractions
and replacement by dentures is the only treatment.
(2) Those younger mothers whose mouths show evidence of previous
dental treatment, often at school clinics. In these cases thorough
scaling of the teeth and several stoppings restore their mouths to
health. As the number of these cases tends to increase, the work
Would be greatly facilitated by some modern surgery equipment.