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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 1932
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hampstead Borough]
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for ante-natal and post-natal cases and for children up to the age of
5, whilst the Council of Social Welfare maintains a dental clinic on
the western side of the Borough at the Health Institute.
The following is a summary of the work carried out at the Borough Council's dental clinic at Pond Street during the year 1932.
| Number of Sessions held | 52 | |
| Patients' Attendances | 562 | |
| Number of Fillings | 214 | |
| Number of Scalings | 14 | |
| Extraction cases | Total Number of teeth extracted | 267 |
| Gas Administrations | 67 | |
| Local Administrations | 16 | |
| Without Anæsthetic | 1 | |
| Number of Dentures (including repairs) | 40 | |
| Number of Dressings and Root treatment | 100 | |
| Number for Advice | 89 | |
| Number of Denture visits | 128 | |
| Number of New Patients | 88 | |
Home Visiting.
There are three Health Visitors engaged by the Borough Council
for the purpose of supervising the welfare of children up to 5 years
of age, and they are responsible for the supervision of some 4,000
children. The present arrangement for the home visiting of babies
is as follows :—
After the "notification" visit, three visits are paid up to six
months.
A fourth visit is made at, or just after, one year.
After the child reaches one year of age, it is only seen again
under most exceptional circumstances, and the vast majority of
infants over two years of age are never visited unless there is a new
baby, or for some other exceptional reason. The supervision therefore
of the toddlers from two years of age to five years is not in every
respect satisfactory, but is the best which can be arranged with the
present limited and inadequate health visiting staff.
These Health Visitors also visit in connection with ophthalmia
neonatorum, puerperal fever, puerperal pyrexia and measles.