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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 1926
Report for the year 1926 of the Medical Officer of Health
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may send specimens of sputum for examination ancl report. This was
utilised during 1926 on 141 occasions by local practitioners (exclusive,
of the Tuberculosis Medical Officer).
By arrangement with University College Hospital one case was
given special Light treatment during 1926.
Dental treatment is available for tuberculous patients. It is given
by an arrangement with the British Dental Hospital whereby patients
attending the Dispensary and in need of dental aid may obtain treatment
at that Hospital, 31, Camden Road, N.W., on Wednesdays at 9.30
a.m.
The following is a summary of the dental work in this connection during 1926:—
| Patients' Attendances | 24 | |
| Number of Fillingrs | 5 | |
| Number of Scalings | 1 | |
| Extraction cases | Number of teeth extracted | 14 |
| With Gas | 2 | |
| With Local Anaesthetic | — | |
| Without Anaesthetic | — | |
| Number of Dentures (including repairs) | 3 | |
| Number of Dressings and Root treatment | 5 | |
| Number for Advice | 4 | |
| Number of Denture visits | 12 | |
| Number of New Patients | 4 | |
The tables that follow have been drawn out for the purpose of
showing the after-history of the patients notified in the Borough during
the years 1921 and 1922. Separate tables are given relating to
patients who attended at the Municipal Tuberculosis Dispensary and
those who did not so attend.