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Battersea 1923
Report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea for the year 1923
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1 Case education grant obtained from Battersea Trust
Charities.
1 Case referred to the Baron Bouck Relief Fund for educational
grant.
The amount of contributions from patients who were sent away
for Institutional treatment amounted to £410 16s. 10d. This
money was collected at the Dispensary and forwarded to the London
County Council.
Tuberculosis Dental Clinic.
During 1922 a special weekly session for the dental treatment
of Tuberculosis patients was established at the Dental Clinic, Plough
Road Baths. The first session was held on the 12th July, 1922.
During the year 1923, patients recommended by the Tuberculosis
Officer were treated at the Clinic. Particulars of the work carried
out are set out below. No charge is made for advice, extractions
or fillings, and where dentures are required the cost of them is
met, if necessary, partly by the patient and partly by the Care
Committee through various social or philanthropic agencies.
Dental Clinic, 1923.
| Dental Clinic, 1923. | |
| Total attendances | 402 |
| Total sessions | 51 |
| Average number of attendances per session | 8 |
| Extractions | 100 |
| Scalings | 18 |
| Fillings | 36 |
| Dentures and remodelling | 19 |
| Repairing dentures | 1 |
| Dressings | 20 |
| Advice given | 113 |
| Total number of operations and interviews for advice only | 307* |
| Average number of operations and interviews for advice only per session | 6 |
NON-DISPENSARY PATIENTS.
In addition to the work carried out by the staff of the Tuberculosis
Dispensary, 1,838 visits to houses of notified cases of Tuberculosis
were made by the Sanitary Inspectors (male and female).
Females and Children under 16.
Women and children notified to be suffering from Tuberculosis
and not attending the Tuberculosis Dispensary are visited at their
homes by one of the female Sanitary Inspectors (Miss Round).
* The number of operations for the purpose of this table
includes each separate extraction and filling performed.