Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Heston and Isleworth]
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Teeth.—
The following table gives in detail the number of children suffering from defective conditions of the teeth, and the number of teeth actually decayed in each case examined:—
Year of Birth. | No. of Observations. | Possible No. of sound teeth per child. | No. of children, shewing the number of decayed teeth at the head of each column. | No. of children with abscesses of gum. | No. of children with teeth extracted. | No. of children with teeth filled. | |||||||||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | IS | ||||||
1906—2nd half-year | i | 20 | 1 | ... | |||||||||||||||
1st | 101 | 20 | 13 | 12 | 5 | 7 | 1 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | i | |||||||
1905—2nd | 128 | 22 | 9 | 26 | 16 | 11 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 1 | ||||||||
1st | 35 | 24 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 4 | i "i | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
1904—2nd ,, | 22 | 24 | 4 | 4 | 2 ... | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||
1st ,, | 4 | 24 | 2 | ||||||||||||||||
1903—2nd | 2 | 24 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||
1902—2nd | 1 | 24 | |||||||||||||||||
1899—2nd ,, | 1 | 28 | 1 | ...... | |||||||||||||||
1st | 1 | 28 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
1898—2nd | 256 | 28 | 41 | 69 | 39 | 11 | 5 ! 2 | 3 | 12 | ||||||||||
1st ,, | 211 | 28 | 46 | 43 | 29 | 12 | 6 3 | 3 | |||||||||||
1897—2nd | 150 | 28 | 17 | 36 | 21 | 6 | 7 ■ 4 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||||
1st ,, | 48 | 28 | 11 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 2 ... | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
1896—2nd ,, | 7 | 28 | 3 | 2 | 1 | ... | |||||||||||||
1st ,, | 4 | 28 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||
1895—2nd | i | 28 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
145 | 214 | 132 | 59 | 26 14 | 14 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 18 | 2 | |||||
Total | 973 | 626 |