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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
Hampstead 1925
Report for the year 1925 of the Medical Officer of Health
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pleurisy, and tuberculosis of the larynx, nose, throat, bronchial
glands and mediastinal glands are classed under the head of pulmonary
tuberculosis.
The following is a summary of the dental work in this connection during 1925:—
| Patients' Attendances | 38 | |
| Number of Fillings | 6 | |
| Number of Scalings | — | |
| Extraction cases | Number of teeth extracted | 29 |
| With Gas | 5 | |
| With Local Anaesthetic | 1 | |
| Without Anaesthetic | — | |
| Number of Dentures (including repairs) | 7 | |
| Number of Dressings and Root treatment | — | |
| Number for Advice | 6 | |
| Number of Denture visits | 20 | |
| Number of New Patients | 2 | |
* These 256 consist of 122 cases de-notified, and 134 dead or removed from the Borough.
A difficulty that we have found in the campaign against tuberculosis,
is the tendency of the patient to move away and fail to notify the local
authority. This renders the disinfection of their rooms after removal
and before re-letting very difficult. Especially is this to be regretted
when such are furnished rooms. This results, too, in the impossibility
of any supervision or "following-up" by the Tuberculosis staff of the
district into which such people remove.
Not infrequently the patient is a domestic servant, and these present
quite a small problem on their own. Thus, it is often very difficult to
decide who are the "contacts" in the case of a tuberculous servant;
they change too from situation to situation, not infrequently, so that
they are easily lost sight of and their trail is never recovered. Disinfection
after such seems to be well nigh impossible and, moreover, they are